The Rising of the Star

[V. Allan Endel]

At 02:57 PM 4/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Lord Larkin O'Kane wrote:
>
>>       Now, the Ansteorran ladies will make ye lovely wives,
>>       But check their skirts and bodices, they always carry knives!
>>       They say this iron-mongery their beauty will not mar,
>>       They'll thrill you or they'll kill you by the rising of the
>> Star!
>> 
>
>That verse is totally untrue!  Yes yes yes.  Not a bit of it is true!
>
>Ghia

Well, it's true about my household, Keep of the Haunted Grove. If they don't
already have a knife when they join, as head I gift them with one. We Celts
want  our women to be able to defend themselves if the men aren't around to
do it for them.
Alan