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 19 biler out of his prayer book, wherein all our names e written; ſo much for a ſtop-hold to my gun, to icklers, to a pair of comical harn-hoſe ; with leather attons from top to toe; and worſt of all, he would ve no leſs than a penny a week to a doctor; arra, id I, I never had a fore finger, nor yet a ſick toe, all se days of my life, then what have I to do with the betor, or the doctor to do with me. Tom. And did he make you pay all theſe things ? Teag. Ay, ay, pay and better pay, he took me fore his captain, who made me pay all was in his bok. Arra, maſter captain, ſaid I, you are a comical Art of a fellow now, you might as well make me pay r my coffin before I be dead, as to pay for a doctor before I be ſick; to which he anſwered in a paſſion, ira, ſaid he, I have ſeen many a better man buried without a coffin, ſir, ſaid I, then I'll have a coffin, die when I will, if there be as much wood in all the world, I ſhall not be buried at all. Then he call d for the geant, ſaying, you Sir, go and buy that man's coffin, d put it in the ſtore till he die, and top fix-pence a- leek off his pay for it: No, no, fir, ſaid I, I'll rather le without a coffin ; and ſeek one when I'm dead; tif you be for clipping another ſix-pence off my poor y, keep it all to yourſelf, and I’ll ſwear all your oaths agreement we had back again, and then ſeek ſoldiers here you will. Tom. O then Pady how did you end the matter! Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, by the nights of ſhaint Pa- trick and help of my brogues, I both ended it, and nded it, for the next night, before that, I gave them bail for my fidelity, and went about the country a tune teller, dumb and deaf as I was not. Tom. How old was you Pady, when you was a fol. Wir laſt? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I was three dozen all but , and it is only two years ſince, ſo I want only four s of three dozen yet, and when I live ſix dozen e, I'll be older than I am, I'll warrand you.