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 14 Teag. Then, Tom, ſince you are ſo inquiſitive, yo muſt go ak the prieſt. Tom. What did you make of your children then, Pad Teag. And what ſhould I make of them, do yo imagine that I ſhould give them into the hands the butchers, as they had been a parcel of young hoge by ſhaint Patrick, I had more unnaturality in'm than put them in an hoſpital, as others do. Tom. No, I ſuppoſe you would leave them wil your friends? Teag. Ay, ay, a poor man's friends is ſometimes cdr than a proſeſt enemy: the beſt friend I ever had int! world, was my own pocket while my money laſted: by I left two babes between the prieſt's door and the pari church, becauſe I thought it was a place of mercy, ar then ſet out for England in queſt of another fortune Tom. And did you not take good night with yo friends ere you came away. Teag. Arra. dear honey, I had no friends in the world but an Irish half crown, and I would have been very ſorry to have parted with ſuch a dear pocket cott panion, at ſuch a time.-- Tom. I fancy, Pady, you've come off with whe they call a moon-Shine fitrag. Teag. You lie like a thief now, for I did not fee fue moon, nor ſtars, all the night then : for I ſet out from Cork, at the dawn of night, and I had travelled twer miles all-but twelve, before gloaming in the morcin Tom. And where did you go to take ſhipping ? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I came to a country villa called Dublin as big a city as any market town in England, where I got myſelf op board of a little you boat, with a parcel of fellows, and a long leather bal I ſuppoſed them to be tinkers, until I aſked what they carried in that leather-ſack; they told me was the Engliſhman they were going over wit then ſaid I, is the milns ſo ſcant in England, th they muſt fend over their corn to Ireland to grind the comical cunning fellows perſuaded me it was