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3 t they would not believe me; for I said that I got from my father when it was a little pistol, and I d kept it till it had grown a gun, and was design- to use it well until it bad grown a big cannon, d then sold it to the military. They all fell a ghing at me as I had been a fool, and bade me home to my mother and clean the potatoes.

Tom. Huwlong is it since you left your own country

Teag. Arra, dear honey, I do not mind whether it a fortnight or four months, but I think myself, is a long time; they tell me my mother is dead ce, but I wont believe it until I get a letter from r own hand, for she is a very good scholar, sup- se she can neither write nor read.

Tom. Was you ever in England before?

Teag. I that I was, and in Scotland too.

Tom. And were they kind to you when you was Scotland?

Teag. They were that kind that they kick't my e for me, and the reason was because I would pay the whole of the liquor that was drunk in company, though the landlord and his two sons mouthful about of it all, and I told them it s a trick upon travellers, first to drink his r, and then to kick him out of doors.

Tom. I really think they have used you ad ly could you not beat them?

Teag. That's what I did, beat them all to their n contentment, but there was one of them strong- than me, who would have killed me, if the o- r two had not palled me away, and I had to for it, till his passion was ever; then they de us drink and gree again; we shook kands, d made a bargain, never to harm other more: this bargain did not last long, for, as I was sing his mouth, by shaint Patrick, I bit his nose, h caused to beat me very sore for my pains. Tom. Well Paddy, what calling was you when Scotland?