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19 Tom. No Paddy: it is first whipt and then shot you Teag. Arra, dear shoy, it is all one thing at last, but t is best to be shot and then whipt, the cleverest way Tom. How much pay, did you get, Paddy ? Teag. Do you know the little tall fat seargeant that feed me to be a soldier? Tom. And how should I know them I never saw you fool. Teag. Dear shoy, you may know him whether you ee him or not, his face is all bored in holes with the mall pox, his nose is the colour of a lobster-toe, and his chin like a well washen potatoe, he's the biggest rogue in our kingdom, you'll know him when you meet thim again: the rogue height me sixpence a day, kill or no kill: and when I laid Sunday and Saturday both together, and all the days in one day, I can't make benny above fivepence of it. Ton. You should have kept an account, arid asked Four arrears once a month. Teag. That's what I did, but lie reads a paternoster put of his prayer hook, wherein all our names are writter: o much for a stop-hold to my gun, to bucklers; to a pair of comical harn-hose, with leather buttons from top lo toe ; and worst of all, lie would have no less than a penny a week, to a doctor; arra, said I, I never had sore finger, nor yet a sick toe, all the days of my life, then what have I to do with the doctor, or the doctor to do with me. Tom. And did he make you pay all these things ? Teag: Ay, ay, pay, and better pay: he took me before his captain, who made me pay all was in his book. Arra, master captain, said I, you are a conical sort of la fellow now, you might as well make me pay for my coffin before I he dead, as to pay for a doctor before be sick ; to which he answered in a passion, sir, said he, I have seen many a better man buried without a coffin; sir, said I, then I'll have a coffin, die when I will, if