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 4 Teag. Why, ſir, I was no buſineſs at all, but what do you call the 'green tree that's like the whin bush, people makes a thing to ſweep the houſe of it? Tom. O yes, Pady, they call it a broom. Teag. Ay, ay. you have it, I was a gentleman's broom, only waited on his horſes, and waſhed the diſhes for the cook : and when my maſter rode a-hunting, I went behind with the dogs. Tom. O yes, Pady, it was the groom you mean, but I fancy you was the Cook's mate, or kitchen boy? Teag. No, no, it was the broom that I was, and if I had ſtaid their till now, I might have been advanced as ligh as my maſter, for the ladies loved me ſo well, that they laughed at me. Tom. They might admire you for a fool. Teag. What, fir, do you imagine that I am not a fool? no, no, my maſter aſked counſel of me in all his matters, and I always gave him a reaſon for every thing: I told him one morning that he went too ſoon to the hunting, that the hares were not got out of their beds; and neither the barking of horns, nor the blowing of dogs could make them rife, it was ſuch a cold morning that night; ſo they all ran away that we cached, when we did not ſee them. Then my maſter told my words to ſeveral gentlemen, that was at dinner with him, and they admired me for want of judgement, for my head was all ofla lump: adding, they were going a fiſhing along with my maſter and me in the afternoon; but I told them that it was a very unhappy thing for any man to go a- hunting is the morning, and a fiſhing in the after- noon; they would try it, but they had better ſtaid at home, for it came on a moſt terrible fine night, of fouth- weſt rain. and even down wind; ſo the fiſhes got all be- low the water to keep them dry from the shower, and we catched them all, but got none. Tom How long did you ſerve that gentleman, Pady? Teag Arra, dear honey, I was with him Az Weeks, end be beat me fever times,