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 10 Tom. In all your travels when abroad, did you ne- ver ſee none of your countrymen, to inform you of what had happened at home concerning your relations? Teag Arra, dear ſhay, I ſaw none but Tom Jack, one day in the ſtreet: but when I came to him, it was not him but one juſt like him. 'Tom. On what account did you go a travelling? Teag. Why a decruiting ſergeant liſted me to be a captain, and after all advanced me no higher than a ſoldier itſelf, but only he called me his dear country. man recruit: for I did not know what the regiment was when I ſaw them, I thought they were all gentle- man's ſons and collegioners, when I ſaw a box like a bible upon their bellies; until I ſaw G. for King George upon it, and R. for God bleſs him: ho, ho, ſaid, I ſhan't be long here. Tom. O then Pady you deſerted from them? Teag. That's what I did, and run to the mountains like a buck, and ever ſince when I ſee any ſoldiers, I cloſe my eyes left they ſhould look and know me. Tom And what exploits did you do when you was a ſoldier! T'eag. Arra, dear honey, I kill'd a man. Tom. And how did yuo do that? Tea g. Arra, dear honey, when he dropt his ſword, I drew mine, and advanced boldly to him, and then cutted off his fact. Tom. O then what a big fool was you; for you ought firſt to have cut off his head. Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, his head was cutted off be- fore 1 engaged him, elſe I had not done it. Tom 0 theo Pady, you acted like a fool; but you are not ſuch a big fool as many take you to be, you might paſs for a philoſopher. Teag. A fulusifer, my father was a fulusifer, be- fides he was a man under great authority by law, con- demning the juſt and clearing the guilty. Do you know how they call the horſe's mother. Tom. Why they call her a mare.