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 PADY FROM CORK. 15

I was dead and buried, for, I found nothing all around me but wooden walls and timber above.

Tom. And how did you came to yourſelf to know where you was at laſt.

Teag. By the law dear honey, I ſcratched my head in a hundred parts, and then ſet me down to think upon it, ſo I minded it was my wife that was dead, and not me, and that I was alive in the young poſt-boat, with the fellows that carries over the Engliſh meal to the Iriſh milns.

Tom. O then, Pady, I am ſure you was glad when you found yourſelf alive.

Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I was very ſure I was alive, but I did not think to live long, ſo I thought it was better for me to ſteal and be hang'd then to live all my days and die directly with hunger at laſt.

Tom. What had you no meat for money along with you?

Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I gave all my money to the captain of the houſe, or goodman of the ſhip to carry me into ſea or over to England, and when I was like to eat my old brogues for want of victuals, I drew my hanger and cut the locks of their leather ſack, thinking to get a lick of their meal; but allelieu, dear ſhoy, I found neither meal nor feeds, but a parſel of papers and letterr, a poor morſel indeed for a hungry man.

Tom. O then Pady you laid down your honeſty for nothing.

Teag. Ay, ay, I was a great thief but got nothing to ſteal.

Tom. And how did you come to get victuals at laſt.

Teag. Allelieu, dear honey, the thought of meat and drink, death or life, and every thing elſe, was out of my mind, I had not a thought but one.

Tom. Aud what was that, Pady.

Teag. To go down among the fiſhes and become a whale, then I would have lived an eaſy life all my days, having nothing to do but drink ſalt water, and cat caller oyſters.

Tom. What, Pady was you like to be drown'd again,