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 18 ing on a fiddle, and another playing on a drum, toſ- ſing their airs thro' the ſtreets, as if they were going to be married. I ſaw them courting none but young men: ſo to bring myſelf to no preferment at all, I lift- ed for a ſoldier, for I was too high for a grandedeer. Tom. And what lifting money did you get, Pady Teag. Arra, dear joy, I got five thirteens and a pair of Engliſh brogues; the guinea and the reſt of the gold was ſent to London, to the king my maſ- ter, to buy me new ſhirts, a cockade, and a common treaſing for my hat, they made me ſwear the mali- cious oath of devilrie againſt the King, the colours, and my captain, telling me if ever I deſert, and not run away, that I ſhould be ſhot, and then whipt to death through the regiment. Tom. No Pady. It is firſt whipt and then ſhot you mean? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, it is all one thing at laſt, but it is beſt to be ſhot and then whipt, the clevereſt. way to die I'll warrant you. Tom: How much pay did you get, Pady? Teag. Do you know the little tall fat ſergeant that feed me to be a ſoldier ? Tom. And how ſhould I know them. I never ſaw, you fool Teag. Dear ſhoy, you may know him whether you ſee him or not for his face is all bor'd in big holes with the ſmall-pox, his noſe is the colour of a lobſter-tae and his chin like a well waſhen potatoe : he's the big- geſt rogue in our kingdom, you'll know him when he cheats you, and the wide world; and another mark, he dights his mouth before he drinks, and blows his noſe before he takes ſnuff; the rogue height me ſix pence'a day, kill or no kill; and when I ſaid Sunday and Saturday both together, and all the days in one day, I can't make a penny above five-pence of it. Tom. You ſhould have kept an account, and aſk'd your arrears once a month. Teag That's what I did, but he reads a parter