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 4 PADY FROM CORK.

groom, only waited on his horſes, and waſhed the diſhes, for the cook; and when my maſter rode a bunting, I ran behind, along with the dogs.

Tom. O yes, dy, it was the groom you mean, but I fancy you was cook's mate or kitchen boy.

Teag. No, no, it was the broom that I was, and if I had ſtaid there till now, I might have been advanced as high as my maſter, for the ladies loved me well that they laughed at me.

Tom. They might admire you for a fool.

Teag. What ſir, do you imagine that I am not a fool, no, no, my maſter aſked counſel of me in all his matters and I always gave him reaſons for every thing. I told him one morning that he went too ſoon to the hunting that the hares were not got out of their bed and neither the barking of horns nor blowing of the dogs could make them riſe, it was ſuch a cold morning that night; ſo they all ran away that we catched, when we did not ſee them. Then my maſter told my words to ſeveral gentleman that was in at dinner with him, and they admired me for want of wiſdom, ſaying, I was certainly a man of great judgment, for my head was all of a lump, and added they were going a fiſhing along with my maſter and me in the afternoon; but I told them it was a very unhappy thing for any man to go a hunting in the morning and a fiſhing in the afternoon; yet they would try it, but they had better ſtaid at home, for it came on a moſt terrible fine night of ſouth-weſt rain and even down wind; ſo the fiſhes got all in below the water to keep them dry from the ſhower, and we catched them all, but got none of them.

Tom and how long did you ſerve that gentleman?

Teag, Arra dear honey, I was with him ſix weeks and he beat me ſeven times.

Teag. For what did he beat you, was it for your madneſs and fooliſh tricks.

Teag. Dear ſhoy, it was not, but for being too inunifitive and going ſharply about buſineſs. Firſt, he ſent me to the poſt office, to enquire if there was any letters for him; ſo when I came there, ſaid I, is there any letters here for my maſter to day. Then they aſked me who was my maſter; ſir, ſaid I, it is very bad manner in you