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 6 I think I have put a trick upon then fellows, for- ſelling the letter to you. What have you done? I have only taken other two letters ; here's one for you maſter, to help your dear penny-worth, and I'll ſend the other to my mother to ſee whether ſhe be dead or alive, for ſhe's always angry, I dont write to her. I had no the word well ſpoken, till he got up his flick and beat me heartily for it, and ſent me back to the fellows again with the two I had very ill will to go, but nobody would buy them of me. Tom. Well, Pady, I think you was to blame, and your maſter too, for he ought to have taught you how co go about theſe affairs, and not beat you ſo. Teag. Arra, dear honey, I had too much wit of my own to be teached by him, or any body elſe : he began to inſtruct me after that. how I ſhould ſerve the table, and loch nally things as thoſe : one night I took ben a roaſted fiſh in one hand, and a piece of bread in the other : 'the old gentleman was ſo ſaucy he would not take it, and told me, I ſhould bring nothing to him without a trencher below it. The fame night as he was going to bed, he called for his Nippers and piſh-pot, ſo I clapt a trencher below the piſh-pot, and another below the ſlippers, and ben I goes, one in every hard, no ſooner did I enter the room, than he threw the piſh-pot at me, which broke both my head and the piſh-pot at one blow; now, ſaid I, the devil is in my maſter alto- gether, for what he commands at one time he cout- termands at another. Next day I went with him to the market to buy a lack of potatoes, I went unto the potatoe monger and aſk'd what he took for the full of a Scot's cog, he weighed them in, he aſked no leſs than four-pence ; four-peace, ſaid I, if I were but in Dublin, I could get the double of that for nothing, and in Cork and Kinſale far cheaper ; them is but ſmall things like peaſe, ſaid I, but the potatoes in my country is as big as your head, fine meat all made up in bleſſed mouthfuls; the potatoe