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7 rchant called me a liar, and my master called a fool, so the one fell a kicking me, and the o- r a-cuffing me, I was in such bad bread among m, that I called myself both a liar and a fool to off alive.

Tom. And how did you carry your potatoes home m the market?

Teag, Arra dear shoy, I carried the horse and m both, besides a big loaf, and two bottles of e; for I put the old horse on my back, and ve the potatoes before me, and when I tied the d to the loaf, I had nothing to do but to carry bottle in my hand: but bad luck to the way as ame home, for a nail out of the heel of my foot ang a leak in my brogue, which pricked the very e, bruised the skin, and made my brogue itself lood, and I having no hammer by me, but a het I left at home, I had to beat down the nail the bottom of the bottle; and by the book, dear y it broke to pieces, and scattered the wine in mouth.

Tom. And how did you recompence your master the loss of the bottle of wine?

Teag. Arra dear shoy, I had a mind to cheat him myself too, for I took the bottle to a black- h, and desired him to mend it, that I might go he butcher and get it full of bloody water, but old me he could not work in any thing but steel iron. Arra, said I, if I were in my own king- , I could get a blacksmith who would make a le out of a stone, and a stone out of nothing. om And how did you trick your master out of it. eag. Why the old rogue began to chide me, ask- me what way I broke it, then I held up the other igh as my head, and let it fall to the ground on one, which broke it all in pieces likewise; now I, master that's the way, and be beat me very tily until I had to shout out mercy and murder at once.