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Teag: Arra, dear honey, I had no friends in the world, but an Irish half-crown; and I would have been very ſorry to parted with ſuch a dear pocket companion at ſuch a time. Tom. I fancy, Pady, you've com'd off with what they call a moon-ſhine flitting. Teag. You lie like a thief now, for I did not ſee ſun, moon, nor ſtars, all the night then; for I ſet out from Cork at the dawn of night, and I had travelled twenty miles all but twelve, before gloaming in the morning. Tom. And where took you ſhipping, Pady? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I came to a country village called Dublin, as big a city as any market town in all England, where I got myself on board of a little young boat, with a parcel of fellows, and a long leather bag, I ſupposed them to be tinkers, until I asked, what they carried in that leather ſack? They told me it was the English mail they were going over with. Then ſaid I, is the milns ſo ſcant in England, that they must ſend over their corn to Ireland to grind it?-- The comical cunning fellows perſuaded me that it was ſo. Then I went down into a little house below the water, hard by the rigg back of the boat, and laid me down on their leather ſack, where I ſlept myſelf almost to death with hunger. And, dear honey, to tell you plainly, when I awak'd. I did not know where I was, but thought I was dead und buried, for I found nothing all around me but wooden walls, and timber above. Tom. Ad how did you come to yourself, to know where you was, at last? Teag. By the law dear ſhoy, I ſcratched my head in a hundred parts, and then ſet me down, to think upon it:--So I minded that it was my wife that was dead, and not me; and that I was