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 PADY FROM CORK. 9

to the world's end if ſome part of the world had not catch'd her by the foot.

Tom. I fancy Pady you was by this time very ſick? Teag. Sick, ay ſick beyond all ſickenſs, clean dead as a door nail; for as I had loſt the key of my back ſide I bock'd up the very bottom of my belly, and I thought that liver and lungs, and all that I had ſhould have gone together; then I called to the fellow that held by her tail behind to pull down his ſheet and hold her head, till I got leiſure to die, and then ſay my prayers.

Tom. Well then Pady, get you ſafe aſhore at laſt.

Teag. Ay, we came aſhore very faſt; but by ſhaint Patrick, I ſhall never venture my dear ſhoul and body in ſuch a young boat again while the wind blow, out of Scots Galloway.

Tom. Well Pady, and where did you go when you came to Ireland again?

Teap. Arra, dear honey, and where did I go, but to my own dear couſin, who was now become very rich by the death of the old back his father who died but a few weeks before I went over, and the parish had to bury him out of pity, it had not to soft him a farthing.

Tom. And what entertainment or good uſage did you get there Pady.

Teag. O my dear ſhoy, I was as kindly used as another gentleman, for I told him I had made ſomething of it, by my travels, as well as himſelf, but I had got no money therefore I had to work for my victuals while I ſtaid with him

Tom. Ho, poor Pady, I ſuppoſe you would not ſtay long there?

Teag. Ara, dear honey, I could have ſtaid there long enough, but when a man is poor, his friends think little of him: I told him I was going to ſee my brother Harry: Harry, ſaid he. Harry is dead; dead ſaid I, and who kill'd him? Why, ſaid he, death, A lelieu dear honey, and where did he kill him, ſaid I? in his bed, ſaid he, O what for a cowardly action was that, ſaid I, to kills man is his bed; and what is this fellow death, ſaid I? What is he, He is one that kills more than the head butcher in all Cork dies. A rs dear honey, ſaid, I, if he had been on Newry mountains with his lungs