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 The COMICAL SAYINGS OF PADY FROM CORK

PART 1.

Tom. GOOD morrow, Sir this is a very cold day.

Teag. Arra, dear honey, yeſternight was a very cold morning.

Teag. Well brother, traveller, of what nation art thou?

Tom. Arra, dear ſhoy, I came from my own kingdom.

Teag. Why ſir, I know that but where is thy kingdom.

Tom. Alleiu, dear honey, don't you know Cork in Ireland?

Tom. O you fool, Cork is not a kingdom but a city.

Teag. Then dear honey I am ſure it is in a kingdom.

Tom. And what is the reaſon you have come and left your own dear country.

Teag. Ama, dear honey, by ſhaint Patrick, they have got ſuch comical laws in our country, that they'll put a man to death in perfed health; for to be free and plain with you neighbour, I was obliged to come away, for I did not chuſe to ſtay among ſuch a people that can hang a poor man when they pleaſe, if he either ſteals, robe, or kills a man.

Tom. Ay, but I take you to be more of an honeſt man then to ſteal, rob, or kill a man.

Teag. Honeſt I am perfectly honeſt when I was but a child my mother would have truſted me with a houſefull of mill ſtones.

Tom, What was the matter was you guilty of nothing?

Teag. Arra dear honey, I did harm to no body; but fancied an old gentleman's gun, and afterwards made it my own.

Tom. Very well boy, and did you keep it ſo.

Teag. Keep it I would have kept it with all my heart, while I liv'd death itſelf would not have parted us, but the old rogue the gentleman being a juſtice of the peace himſelf had me tried for the rights of it, and how I came by it and ſo took it again.

Tom. And how did you clear yourself without puniſhment

Teag. Arra, dear honey, I told them a parcell of lies but they would not believe me, for I ſaid that I got it from my father when it was a little piſtol, and I had