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beat down the nail with the bottom of the bottle; and by the hook, dear ſhoy, I broke to pieces, and ſcattered the wine in my mouth. Tom. And how did you recompence your master for the loss of his bottle of wine. Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I Had a mind to cheat him and myself too; for I took the bottle away to a blacksmith, and desired him to mend it, that I might go to the butchers and get it full of bloody water, but he told me he could not work in any thing but ſteel and iron. Arra, ſaid I, if I were in my own kingdom, I could get a blacksmith who could make a bottle out of a ſtone, and a ſtone out of nothing. Tom. And how did you trick your master out of it? Teag. Why, the old rogue began to chide me, asking me what way I broke it? Then I held up the other as high as my head, and let it fall to the ground on a ſtone, which broke it all to pieces likewiſe. Now, ſaid, master, that's the way: And then he beat me very heartily, until I had to ſhout mercy and murder all at once. Tom. Why did you not leave him when he used you ſo badly? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I cou'd never think to leave him while I could eat, he gave me ſo many good victuals, and promised to prefer me to his own bone-picker; but, by ſhaint Patrick, I had to run away with my life or it was done, else I had lost my dear ſhoal and body too by him; and then I came home much poorer than I went