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 PADY FROM CORK. 11

the juſt and clearing the guilty, do you know how they call the horſes mother.

Tom. Why they call her a mare.

Teag. A mare, aye very well minded, by ſhaint Patrick 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 old barren belly, for ſhe lived in great plenty and died in great poverty; devoured up all or ſhe died, but two hens and a pockful of potatoes a poor eſtate for an Iriſh gentleman in faith.

Tom, and what did you make of our hens and potatoes, did you ſow them.

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

Tom. And what buſineſs did your mother follow after

Teag. Greatly in the merchant way.

Tom. And what ſorts of goods did the deal in?

Teag. Dear honey ſhe went through the country and ſold ſmall fiſhes, onions, and apples; bought hens and eggs and then hatched them herſelf. I remember of one long necked cock ſhe had of an over ſea broad that ſtood on the midden and picked all the ſtars out of the north weſt ſo they were never ſo thick their ſince.

Tom. Now Pady that's a bull ſurpaſſes all; but is there none of the cock's offspring alive in Ireland now.

Teag. A rs dear ſhoy I don't think there are, but it is a pity there had not, for they would fly with people above the ſea, which would put the uſe of ſhips out of faſhion, and there would be nobody drown'd at ſea at all.

Tom. Very well Pady; but in all your travels did you ever get a wife?

Teag. O that's what I did and s wicked wife too.

Tom. And what is become of her now?

Teag. Dear ſhey I cant't tell whither ſhe is gone to Purgatory, or the Pariſh of Pig an n, for ſhe told me ſhe would certainly die the firſt opertunity ſhe could get, as this preſent evil world wat not worth the waiting on, ſo ſhe would go and ſee wha good things is in the world to come; and when that old rover called the Feve came aging like a madman ever the whole kingdom