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 Comical Sayings of Pady from Cork.

PART 1.

Tom GOOD morrow, Sir, this is a very cold day. Teag. Arra, dear honey, yeſternight was a very cold morning. Tom. Well brother traveller, of what nation art thou? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I came from my own kingdom. Tom. Why, I know that, but where is thy kingdom? Teag. Allelieu dear honey, don't you know Cork in Ireland. Tom. You fool! Cork is not a kingdom but a city. Teag. Then dear ſhoy, I'm ſure it is in a kingdom. Tom. And what is the reaſon you have come and left your own dear country? Teag. Arra dear honey, by ſhaint Patrick, they have got ſuch comical laws in our country that they will put a man to death in perfect health : ſo to be free and plain with you, neighbour, I was obliged to come away, for I did not chuſe to ſtay among ſuch a people that can hang a poor man when they pleaſe, if he either ſteals, robs, or kills a man. Tom. Ay, but I take you to be a more honeſt man than to ſteal, rob, or kill a man. Teag. Honeſt, I am perfectly honeſt. When I was but a child, my mother would have truſted me with a houſe full of mill-Atones. Tom. What was the matter, was you guilty of nothing? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I did harm to nobody ; but fancied an old gentleman's gun, and afterwards made it my own. Tom. Very well boy, and did you keep it fo? Teag. Keep it, I would have kept it with all my heart, while I lived, death itſelf could not have parted us, but the old rogue, the gentleman, being a juſtice of peace himſelf, had me tried for the right of it, and how I came by it, and ſo took it again. Tom. 'And how did you clear yourſelf without puniſhment? Teng Arra, dear shoy, I told him a parcel of lies,