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the hares were not get out of their beds, and neither the barking of horns nor the blowing of dogs could make them rife, it was ſuch a cold morning that night; ſo they ran away that we catched, when we did not ſee them. Then my maſter told my words to ſeveral gentlemen who were at dinner with him, and they admired me for want of wiſdom, ſaying, I was certainly a man of great judgment, for my heat was all of a lump. They were for going a fiſhing along with my maſter and me in the afternoon, but I told them that it was a very unhappy thing for any man to go a-hunting in the morning and fiſhing in the afternoon: Yet they would try it, but they had better ſtaid at home, for it came on a moſt terrible night of fouth-weſt rain, and even downwind! ſo the fiſhes got all below the water, to keep them dry from the ſhower, and we catch't them all, but got none of them. Tom. And how long did you ſerve that gentleman, Pady? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I was with him ſix weeks, and he beat me ſeven times. Tom. For what did he beat you, was it for your madneſs and fooliſh tricks? Teag. Dear ſhoyy, it was not, but for being too inquiſitive, and going ſharply about my buſineſs - First, he ſent me to the poſt office, to enquire if there was any letters for him: So when I came there, ſaid I, Is there any letters here for my maſter to-day? --Then they aſked me who was my maſter? Sir, ſaid I, it is very bad