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15 he comical cunning fellows persuaded me it was so: en I went down to a little house below the water, ard by the rigg-back of the boat, and laid me down their leather-sack, where I slept myself almost to eath with hunger. And dear Tom to tell you plainly hen I awaked I did not know where I was, but ought I was dead and buried, for I found nothing around me but wooden walls and timber above.

Tom. And how did you come to yourself to now where you was at last?

Teag. By the law, dear shoy, I scratched my ead in an hundred parts, and then set me down to ink upon it, so I minded it was my wife that was ead, and not me, and that I was alive in the young st-boat, with the fellows that carries over the nglish meal from the Irish milns.

Tom. O then Paddy, I am sure you was glad hen you found yourself alive?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I was very sure I was ive, but I did not think to live long, so I thought was better for me to steal and be hang'd, than to we all my days, and die directly with hunger at last.

Tom. Had you no meat nor money along with you?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I gave all the money to the aptain of the house, or goodman of the ship, to carry e into the sea, or over to England, and when I was ke to eat my old brogues for waut of victuals I drew y hanger and cut the lock off the leather sack think- ng to get a lick of their meal; but allelieu dear shoy found neither meal nor seeds, but a parcel of papers nd letters, a poor morsel indeed for a hungry man.

Tom. O then Paddy you laid down your honesty er nothing.

Teag. Ay, ay, I was a great thief but got no- hing to steal.

Tom. And bow did you come to get victuals at last?

Teag. Allelieu, dear honey, the thoughts of meat nd drink, death and life, and every thing else was out of mind, I had not a thought but one.