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manners in you to aſk any gentleman's name.-- At this they laughed, mocking me, and ſaid they could give me none, if I would not tell my maſter's name: So I returned to my maſter, and told him the impudence of the fellow, how he would give me no letters unleſs I would tell him your name, maſter --My matter at this flew in a great paſſion, and kick't me down ſtairs, ſaying. Go, you rogue, and tell my name directly: How can the gentleman give letters, when he knows not who is aſking for them!--Then I returned and told my maſter's name; ſo they told me there was one for him: I looked at it, being but very ſmall, and aſked the price of it? They told ine it was Sixpence: Sixpence! ſaid I; will you take Sixpence for that ſmall thing, and ſelling bigger ones for Twopence! Faith I am not ſuch a big fool; you think to cheat me: Now, this is not a conſcionable way of dealing: I'll acquaint my maſter of it firſt. So I came and told my maſter as they would have Sixpence for his letter, and was ſelling bigger ones for twopence. He took up my head and broke his cane with it, calling me a thouſand fools, ſaying, the man was more just than to take any thing but the right for it. But I was ſure there was none of the right, buying and ſelling ſuch dear penny-worths. So I came again for my dear Sixpence letter: And as the fellow was ſhuffling thro' a parcel of them, ſeeking for it again, to make the best of a dear maret, I pick't up two; and home I comes to my maſter, thinking