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Tom. I really think you gave her enough along with her, but you ought to have cried for her, if it was no more but to be in the fashion.

Teag. And why should I cry without sorrow? when we hired two ctiers to cry all the way before her to keep her in the fashion.

Tom And what do they cry before a dead woman?

Teag. Why they cry the contmon cry, or funeral lament that is used in our Irish country.

Tom. And what manner of cry is that Pady?

Teag. Dear Tom, if you don't know I'll tell you, when any dies, there is a number of criers goes before, saying, Luff, fuff, fou, allelien, dear honey, what aileth thee to die! it was not for want of good butter-milk and potatoes,

PART III.

Tom. WELL Pady, and what did you do when your wife died?

Teag. Dear honey, what would I do; do you think I was such a big fool as to die too, I am sure if I had I would not have got fair play when I am not so old yet as my father was when he died.

Tom. No, Pady, it is not that I mean, was you sorry, or did you weep for her?

Teag. Weep for her, by shaint Patrick I would not weep nor yet be sorry, suppose my own mother and all the women in Ireland had died seven years before I was born.

Tom. What did you do with your children when she died?

Teag Do you imagine I was such a big fool as bury my children alive along with a dead woman: Arra, dear horey, we always commonly give now thing along with a dead person, but an old shirt, a winding sheet, a big hammer, with a long candie, and an Irish silver threepenny piece?

Tom. Dear Pady, and what do they make of all these things?