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PART II. Tom HOW did you get ſafe out of Scotland ? Teag. By the law dear honey, when I came to Port-Patrick, and ſaw my own kingdom, I knew I was ſafe at home, but I was clean dead, and almoſt drowned before I could get riding over the water; for I, with nine or ten paſſengers more, ſlept in a little young boat, having but four men dwelling in a little houſe, in the one end of it, which was all thacked with deals, and after they had pulled up their tether stick, and laid her long halter over het mane, they pol led up a long ſheet like three pair of blankets, to the riggen of the houſe, and the wind blew in that, which made her gallop up one hill and down another, till I thought ſhe would have run to the world's end Tom. Well Pady, and where did you go when you came to Ireland again? Teag. Arra, dear honey, and where did I go, but to my own dear couſin, who was now become very rich by the death of the old buck his father; who died but a few weeks before I went over, and the pariſh had to bury him out of pity, it did not coſt him a farthing Tom. And what entertainment did you get there? Teag. O my dear ſhoy, I was kindly uſed as ano- ther gentleman, and would have ſtaid their long enough, but when a man is poor his friends think little of him : I told him I was going to ſee my brother Harry : Harry, ſaid he, Harry is dead; dead, ſaid I, and who kill'a him? Why ſaid he, death : Allelieu, dear honey, and where did he kill him, ſaid I: in his bed, fays he. Arra, dear honey, ſaid I, if he had been upon Newry mountains with hiſ brogues on, and his broad ſword by his ſide, all the deaths in Ireland had not kill'd hon : O that impudent fellow death, if he had let him alone till he died 'for want of butter milk and potatoes, I am ſure he had lived all the days of his life: