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Teag. Then, Tom, since you are so inquisitive, you must go ask the priest.

Tom. What did you make of your children then Pady

Teag. And what should I make of them, do you imagine that I should give them into the hands of the butchers, as they had been a parcel of young hogs; by shaint Patrick I had more unnaturality in me, than to put them in an hospital as others do.

Tom. No, I suppose you would leave them with your friends?

Teag Ay, ay, a poor man's friends is sometimes worse than a prefest enemy, the best friend I ever had in the world was my own pocket while my money lasted; but I left two babes between the priest's door and the parish church, because I thought it was a place of mercy, and then set ont for England in quest of another fortune.

Tom. And did you not take good night with your friends ere you came a way?

Teag. Arra dear honey, I had no friends in the world but an Irish half crown, and I would have been very sorry to parted with such a dear pocket. companion, at such a time,

Tom I fancy, Pady, you've come off with what they call a moon-shine fliting.

Teag. You lie like a thief now, for I did not see sun, moon, nor stars, all the night then: for I set out from Cork at the dawn of night, and I had travelled twenty miles all but'twelve, before gloaming in the morning.

Tom. And where did you go to take shipping?

Teag. Arra, dear honey, I came to a country village called Dublin, as big a city as any market-town in all England, where I got myself aboard of a little young boat, with a patcel of fellows, and a long leather bag, I supposed them to be tinkers, until I asked what they carried in that leather sack; they told me it was the English mail they were going over with; then said I, is the milns so scant in England, that they must send over their corn to Ireland to grind it