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 11 Teag. A mare, ay, very well minded, my father was a male in Cork. Tom. And what riches was left you by the death of your mother. Teag. A bad luck to her own barren belly, for his lived in great plenty, and died in great poverty devoured up all or the died, but two hens and a pockful of potatoes, a poor eſtate for an Iriſh gentle- man, in faith. Tom. And what did you make of the here and po- tatoes, did you ſow them ? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I lowed them in my belly, and fold the liens to a cadger: "Tom. What buſineſs did your mother follow after? Teag. Greatly in the merchant way, Tom. And what fort of goods did ſae deal in? Teag. Dear honey, he went through the country and cold ſmall files, onions, and apples: bought hens and eggs, and then hatched them herſelf. I re- member of a long-necked cock fire had, of an overſea. brood, that ſtood in the midden, and picked all the Stars cut of the north-weſt ſo they were never ſo thick there ſince. Tom. Now Pady, that's a bull ſurpaſſes all: but is there acne of that cock's offspring alive now? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I don't think that there are, but it is a pity but they had, for they would fly with people above the ſea, which would put the uſe of ſhips of faſhion, and nobody be drowned at all. Tom. Very well Pady, but in alt your travels did you ever get a wife? Teag. Ay, that's what I did, and a wicked wife too: and my dear ſhoy, I can't tell whether the is gone to. Purgatory, or the pariſh of Pig-trantrum ; for ſhe told me the would certainly die the firſt opportunity ſhe could get, as this preſent evil world was not worth the waiting on, ſo ſhe would go and ſee what good things is in the world to come ; ſo when that old rover called the Fever, came raging over the