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 Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork.

PART I.

Tom. GOOD morrow, Sir, this is a very cold day. was a very cold morning.

Tom. Well brother traveller of what nation art thou?

Teag. Arrah dear shoy, I came from my own kingdom

Tom. Why, I know that, but where is thy kingdom?

Teag. Allelieu dear boney, don't you know Cork in Ireland.

Tom. You fool, Cork is not a kingdom but a city.

Teag. Then dear shoy, I'm sure it is in a kingdom.

Tom. And what is the reason you have come and left your own dear country?

Teag. Arra dear honey, by shaint Patrick, they have got such comical lawsin our country, that they will put a man to death in perfect health; so to be free and plain with you, neighbour, I was obliged to come away, for I did not chuse to stay among such e people that can hang a poor man when they please. if he either steals, robs, or kills a man.

Tom. Ay, but I take you to be more of an honest man, that to steal, rob, or kill a man.

Teag. Honest, I am perfectly honest, when I was but a child, my mother would have trusted me with a house full of mill-stones.

Tom. What was the matter, was you guilty of nothing

Teag Arra, dear honey, I did harm to nobody but fancied an old gentleman's gun, and afterwards made it my own.

Tom Very well, boy, and did you keep it so?

Teag. Keep it, I would have kept it with all my heart while I lived, death itself could not have parted us but the old rogue, the gentleman, being a justice of peace himself, had me tried for the rights of it, and how I came by it, and so took it again.

Tom. And how did you clear yourself withouse punishment?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I told him a parcel of lies.