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he River Sticks, to catch fishes for shaint Patrick's bible, and them that is owing the priests any money put in the black hole, and then given to the hands f a great black bitch of a devil, which is keeped or a hangman, who whips them up and down the moaky dungeon every morning for six months.

Tom. Aud where does your good people go when hey are separated from the bad.

Pady. And where would you have them to go ut unto shaint Patrick's palace, and then they hay go down the back stairs into the garden of Eden, now called Paradise.

Tom. Well Pady, are you to do as much justice a Protestant as a Papist?

Pady. O my dear shoy, the most justice we are ommanded to do a Protestant, is to whip and torment them until they confess themselves in the Ro uish Faith; and then cut their throats that they may die believers.

Tom. What business do you follow after at pre- ent?

Pady. Arra, dear shoy, I am a mountain sailor, nd my supplication is as follows.

PADY'S HUMBLE PETITION, OR SUPPLICATION.

GOOD Christian people behold me a man! who has com'd through a world of wonders, a hell full of Hardships, dangers by sea, and dangerously land, and yes I am alive; you may see my hand crooked like a fools foot, and that is no wonder at all considering my sufferings and sorrows: Oh! oh! oh! good people. I was a man in my time who had plenty of the gold plenty of he silver, plenty of the clothes, plenty of the butter, he beer, beef, and bisket And now, now I have nothing: being taken by the Turks and relieved by the Spaniards, lay sixty-six days at the siege of Gibralter, and got nothing to eat but sea wreck and row mussels. put to see for our safety, cast upon the Barbarian, chast, among the woful wicked Aigerines, where we were taken