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midden, and picked all the ſtars out of the northwest! ſo they were never ſo thick there ſince. Tom. Now, Pady, that's a bull ſurpasses all! But is there none of that cock's offspring alive in Ireland now? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I don't think that there are; but it is a pity, but there had for they would fly with people above the ſea, which would put the use of ſhips out of fashion, and then there would be nobody drown'd at ſea at all. Tom. Very well, Pady; but in all your travels, did you never get a wife? Teag. Ay, that's what I did, and a wicked wife too. Tom. And what is become of her now? Teag. Dear ſhoy, I can't tell whether ſhe is gone to Purgatory, or the pariſh of Pigtrantrum; for he told me ſhe would certainly die the firſt opportunity ſhe could get, as this preſent evil world was not worth the waiting on, ſo ſhe would go and ſee what good things is in the world to come; and ſo, when that old rover called the Fever, came raging like a madman over the whole kingdom, knocking the people on the head with deadly blows, ſhe went away and died out of ſpite, leaving me with nothing but two motherless children. Tom. O but, Pady, you ought to have gone to a doctor, and got ſome pills and phyſic for her. Teag. By ſhaint Patrick I had as good a pill of my own, as any doctor in the kindom could