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7 er ; and as the fellow his shuffling through a parcel hem, seeking for it again, to make the best of a dear ket, I pict up two, and home I comes to my master, king lie would be pleased with what I had done; said I, master, I think I have put a trick upon in Fellows, for selling the letter to you. What have done. I have only taken other two letters: here's for yon master, to help your dear penny-worth, and send the other to my mother to see whether she be d or alive, for she's always angry I don't write to. I had not tie word well spoken, till he got up stick and beat me heartily for it, and sent me back he fellows again with the two. I had a very ill will go, but nobody would buy them of me, Tom. Well, Paddy, I think yon was to blame, and or master too, for he onght to have taught you how go about these affairs, and not beat you so. Teay, Arra dear honey, I had too much wit of my n to be teached by him, or any body else ; le began instruct me after that how I should serve the table, such nasty things as those : one night I took hen a sted fish in one hand, and a piece of bread in the ner; the old gentleman was so saucy he would not ce it, and told me I should bring nothing to him with- it a trencher below it. The same night as lie was ang to bed, he called for his slippers and pish-pot, so clapt a trencher below the pish-pot, and another below e slippers, and hen I goes, one in every hand; no per did I enter the room than he threw the pish-pot nie, which broke both my head and the pish-pot at now, said I, the devil is in my master alto- ther, for what he commands at one time he counter- ands at another. Next day I went with him to the market to buy a sack of potatoes, I went to the potatoe- longer, and asked what he took for the full of a Scot's ag, he weighed them in, he asked no less than four- ence; fourpence, said I, if I were but in Dublin, I ould got the double of that for nothing, and in Cork und Linsale far cheaper; them is but small things like