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hammer, with an Iriſh ſixpenny piece, to pay her paſſage at the gate, and what more could ſhe look for.

Tom. I really think you gave her enough along with her, but you ought to have cried for her, as if it was as more but to be in the faſhion.

Teag. And why thould I cry without ſorrow, when we hired two criers to cry all the way before her, to keep in the faſhion.

Tom. And what do they cry before a dead woman.

Teag. Why they cry the common cry, or funeral layment that is uſed in our Iriſh country.

Tom. And what manner of cry is that, Pady.

Teag Dear Tom if you don't know I'll tell you, when any dies, there is a number of criers before, ſaying Luff, luff. fou, allelieu dear hony, what aileth the to die, it was not for want of good butter milk and potaoes.

PART. III.

Tom. WELL Pady, and what did you do whea your wife died.

Teag. Dear honey, what would I do; do you think I was ſuch a big fool as to die too; I am ſure if I had, I would not have got fair play, when I am not ſo old yet as my father was when he died.

Tom. No, Pady, that is not what I mean, but was you ſorry or did you weep for her?

Teag. Weep for her, by ſhaint Patrick I would not weep nor yet be ſorry ſuppoſe my own mother and all the women in Ireland had died ſeven years before I was born.

Tom. What did you do with your children when ſhe died.

Teag. Do you imagine I was ſuch a big fool as bury my children alive along with a dead woman, Arra dear honey, we always commonly give nothing along with a dead perſon, but an old ſhirt, and a winding-ſheet, a big hammer, with a long candle and an Iriſh halfpenny piece.

Tom. Dear Pady, and what uſe do they make of all this?

Teag Then Tom, ſince you are ſo inquſitive, you go aſk the prieſt.