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d hen's venison; but our relgion is one of the ngriest in all the world, ah! but it makes my eth to weep, and my belly to water, when I see e Scotch Presbyterians, and English churchmen, time of lent, feeding upon bulls bastards, and eep's young children.

Tom. Why Pady, do you say the bull is a forni- ator and get's bastards?

Pady. Arra, dear shoy, I never saw the cow and er husband, all the days of my life, nor before I was orn, going to the church to be married, and what hen can his sons and daughters be but bastards?

Tom What reward will you get when you are lead, for punishing your belly so while you are alive! Pady. By shaint Patrick I'll live like a king when 'm dead, for I will neither pay for meat nor drink. Tom. What, Pady, do you think that you are to come alive again when you are dead?

Pady. O yes we that are true Roman Catholicks will live a long time after we are dead; when we die in love with the Priests, and the good people of your profession.

Tom. And what assurance can your priest give you of that?

Pady. Arra, dear shoy, our priest is a great shaint, a good shonl, who can repeat a pater-poster, and Ave Maria, which will fright the very horned devil himself, and make him rua for it, until he be like to fall and break his neck.

Tom. And what does he give you when you are dying that makes you come alive again?

Pady. Why he writes a letter upon our tongues, sealed with a water, gives us a sacrament in our mouth, with a pardon, and direction in our right hand, who to call for at the posts of Purgatory.

Tom. And what money. design you to give the priest for your pardon?

Pady. Dear shoy, I wish I had first the money he would take for it, I would rather drink it my-