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10 PART II Tom. How did you get safe out of Scotland ? Teag. By the law dear honey, when I came to Pot Patrick, and saw my own kingdom, I knew I was sale at home, but I was clean dead, and almost drowned be- fore I could get riding over the water; for. I with nice passengers more, leapt into a little young boat, having but four men dwelling in a little house, in the one el of it, which was all thacked with deals: and after they had pulled up her tether-stick, and laid her long halten over her mane, they pulled up a long sheet, like thiet pair of blankets, to the riggen of the house, and the wind blew in that, which made her gallop up one till att down another, till I thought she would have run to the world's end, Tom. Well Paddy, and where did yon go when you came to Ireland again? Teag. Arta dear honey, and where did I go but to iny own dear cousin, who was now become very rich ly the death of the old buck his father; who died but a few weeks before I went over, and the parish had to biliy him out of pity, it did not cost him a farthing: Tom. And what entertainment did you get there? Teag. O my dear shoy, I was kindly used as another gentleman, and would have staid there long enough, bu when a man is poor his friends think little of him: I told in I was going to see my brother Harry: Harry, suit he, Harry is dead; dead said I, and who killed him Why, said lie, death : Allelieu, dear honey, and wher did he kill him? said I. In his bed, says he. Air: dear honey, said 1, if he had been upon Newry monn. tains with his brogues ort, and his broad sword by mi fide, all the death's in Ireland had not have killed him o that impudent fellow death, if he had let him alone till lie died for want of butter milk and potatoes, I an sure he had lived all the days of his life: Tom. In all your travels when abroad, did you neve