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having but four men dwelling in a little houſe, in the one end of it, which was all thacked with deals: and after they had pulled up her teather-ſtick, and laid her long halter over her mane, they pulled up a long big ſheet, like three pair of blankets, to the riggen of the house and the wind blew in that, which made her gallop up one hill and down another, till I thought ſhe would have run to the world's end, if ſome part of the world had not catched her by the foot. Tom. I fancy, Pady, you was by this time very ſick? Teag. Sick! ay, ſick beyond all ſickneſs; 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, and got 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 blows out of Scots Galloway. Tom. Well, Pady, and where did you go, when you came to Ireland again? Teag. 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 buck his father, who died but a few weeks before I went over;