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was deſigned to uſe it well, until it had grown a big cannon and then ſold it to the military.-- They all fell a laughing at me, as I had been a fool, and bade me go home to my mother, and clean the potatoes. Tom. And how long is it ſince your own country. Teag. Arra, dear honey, I do not mind whether it be a fortnight or four months, but I think myſelf it is a long time; they tell me my mosher is dead ſince, but I won't believe it, until I get a letter from her own hand; for ſhe is a very good ſcholar, ſuppoſe ſhe can neither read, nor write, Tom. Was you ever in England before? Teag. Ay, that I was, and in Scotland too. Tom. And were they kind to you, when you was in Scotland? Teag. They were that kind, that they kicket my arſe for me; and the reaſon was, becauſe I would not pay the whole of the liquor that was drank in the company, though the landlord and his two ſons got mouthful about of it; they would have me pay it all, though I did not drink it all, and I told them, it was a trick upon travellers, firſt to drink his liquor, and then to kick him out of doors, Tom. I really think they uſed you badly: but could you not beat them? Teag. That's what I did, beat them all to their own contentment but there was one of them ſtronger than me, who would have killed