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Teag. Arra, dear honey, by ſhaint Patrick, they have got ſuch comical laws in our country, that they'll put a man to death in perfect health: So, to be free and pain with you. neighbour, I was obliged to come away; for I did not chooſe to ſtay among ſuch people, that can hang a poor man when they pleaſe, if he either ſteals, robs, or kills a man. Tom. but I take you to be more of an honeſt man, than do any of theſe things. Teag. Honeſt! I am perfectly honeſt: When I was but a child, my mother would have truſted me with a houſe-ful of miln-ſtones. Tom. What was the matter, was you guilty of nothing? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I did harm to nobody, but fancied an old gentleman's gun, and afterwards made it my own. Tom. Very well, my boy, and did you keep the gun? Teag. Keep it! I would have kept it with all my heart while I lived death itſelf could not have parted us; but the old rogue, the gentleman, being. Juſtice of the Peace himſelf had me tried for the rights of it, and how I came by is, and ſo took it again. Tom. And now did you clear your ſelf without puniſhment? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I told them a parcel of lies but they would not believe me; for I ſaid, I got it from my father when it was a little piſtol, and I had kept till it had grown a gun, and