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11 Teag. A mare, ay, very well minded, my father was a mare in Cork,

Tom. And what riches was left you by the death of your mother?

Teag. A bad luck to her own barren belly for he lived in great plenty, and died in great pover- y; devoured up all or she died, but two hens, nd a pockful of potatoes, a poor estate for an rish gentleman, in faith.

Tom. And what did you make of the hens, nd potatoes, did you sow them ?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I sowed them in my elly, and sold the hens to a cadger.

Tom. What business did your mother follow after?

Teag. Greatly in the merchant way.

Tom. And what sort of goods did she deal in?

Teag. Dear honey, she went through the coun- ry and sold small fishes, onions and apples; ought hens and eggs and then hatched them her- elf. I remember of a long-necked cock she had, f an over-sea brood, that stood on the midden nd picked all the stars out of the north-west, so hey were never so thick there since.

Tom. Now Paddy, that's a bull surpasses all: but is there none of that cock's offspring alive now?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I don't think there are, ut it is a pity but they had, for they would fly with eople above the sea, which would put the use of ips out of fashion, and nobody be drowned at all.

Tom. Very well Paddy, but in all your travels id you ever get a wife?

Teag. Ay that's what I did, and a wicked wife too; nd my dear shoy, I can't tell whether she is gone Purgatory, or the parish of Pig-trantrum; for she old me she should certainly die the first opportunity e could get, as this present evil world was not orth the waiting on, so she would go and see what od things is in the world to come; so when that d rover called the Fever, came raging over the