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PART II.

Tom How did you get safe out of Scotland! to Port Patrick, and saw my own kingdom, I knew I was safe at home, but I was clean dead, and almost drowned before I could get riding over the water; for I with nine or ten passengers more, lept in a little young boat, having but four men dwelling in a little house, in the one end of it, which was all thacked with deals: and after they had pulled up her tether-stick, and laid her long halter over her mane, they pulled up a long sheet, like three pair of blankets, to the riggen of the house, and the wind blew in that, which made her gallop up one hill and down another, till I thought she would have run to the world's end.

Tom. Well Pady, and where did you go when you came to Ireland again?

Teag. Arra dear honey, and where did I go but to my own dear cousin, who was now become very rich by the death of the old buck his father; who died but few weeks before I went over, and the parish had to bury him out of pity, it did not cost him a farthing.

Tom. And what entertainment did you get there?

Teag. O my dear shoy, I was kindly used as another gentleman, and would have staid there long enough, but when a man is poor liis friends think little of him: I told him I was going to see my brother Harry: Harry, said he, Harry is dead; dead skid I, and who kill'd him? Why said he death Allelieu, dear honey, and where did he kill him, said I: in his bed, says he. Atra dear honey, said I, if he had been upon Newy mountains with his brogues on, and his broad sword by his side, all the deaths in Ireland had not killed him: O that impudent fellow death, if he had let him alone till he died for want of butter-milk and potatoes, I am sure he had lived all the days of his life.