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9 PART II.

Tom. How did you get safe out of Scotland?

Teag. By the law dear honey, whom 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, lept 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 her tether-stick, and laid her long halter over her mane, they pulled up a long sheet, like three air of blankets, to the riggen of the house, and the wind blew in that, which made her gallop up ne hill aud d wn another, till I thought she would have run to the world's end.

Tom. Well Paddy, and where did you go when ou came to Ireland again?

Teag. Arra, dear honey, and where did I go ut to my own dear cousin, who was now become very rich by the death of the old buck his father; who died but few weeks before I went over, and he parish had to bury him out of pity, it did not ost him a farthing.

Tom. And what entertainment did you get there?

Teag. O my dear shoy, was kindly used as another gentleman, and would have staid there long nough, but when a man is poor his friends think ttle of him: I told him I was going to see my bro- her Harry; Harry, said he, Harry is dead; dead aid I, and who kill'd him? Why said he death; llelieu, dear honey, and where did he kill him, aid I; in his bed, says he. Arra dear honey, said , if he had been upon Newry mountains with his rogues on, and his broad sword by his side, all the eaths in Ireland had not killed him: O that impu- ent fellow death, if he had let him alone till he died r want of butter-milk and potatoes, I am sure he ad lived as the days of his life.