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alive in the young post boar, with the fellows that carries over the English mail from the Irish milns, to feed the English people with. Tom. O then, Pady, I am ſure you was glad when you found yourſelf alive. Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I was very ſure I was alive, but I did not think live long: ſo I thought it was better for me to ſteal and be hang'd, than to live all my days, and die directly with hunger or a lingering or ſudden death at the last. Tom. What, had you no meat nor money along with you in the Packet-boat? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy. I gave all my money to the Captain of the house, or goodman of the ſhip, to carry me into the ſea, or over to England; and when I was like to eat my old brogues for want of victuals, I drew my hanger and cut the lock off their leather ſack thinking to get a lick of their meal, but allelieu dear ſhoy, I found nothing, meal nor ſeeds, but a parcel of papers and letters, a poor morſel for a hungry man. Tom. O then. Pady, you laid down your honeſty, and got nothing for it? Teag. Ay, ay I was a great thief, but got nothing in the large leather bag to ſteal or eat. Tom. And how came you by victuals at last? Teag. Allelieu, dear honey, the thoughts of meat and drink, death and life, and every thing elſe was out of my head, but one thought. Tom. And what was that thought, Pady? Teag. That I was to go down among the fiſhes, and become a whale; then I would have lived an easy life all my days, having nothing to do but drink ſalt water, and eat eaſter oyster's. Tom. What, Pady, was you like to be drown'd? Teag. Ay, ay drown'd, as cleanly drown'd as a fiſh; the ſea blew loud, and the wind ran high.