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It would be well pleaſed with what I had done. Now, ſaid I, master. I think I have put a trick on them fellows, for ſelling the letters ſo dear to you. What have you done! ſaid he. Said I, I've only taken two other letters; here's one for you, master, to help your dear penny worth; and I'll ſend the other to my mother, to ſee whether ſhe be dead or alive; for ſhe's always angry when I don't write to her. I had not the word well Spoken, till he got up his ſtock and beat me heartilý for it, and ſent me back to the fellows again with the two. I had very ill will to go, but nobody would buy them of me by the way. Tom. A well, Pady, I think you was to blame, and your maſter too, for he ought to have taught you how to have gone about those affairs, and not beat you ſo. Teag. Arra, dear honey, I had too much wit of my own to be teached by him, or any body else. He began to instruct me after that, how I ſhould ſerve the table, and ſuch nasty things as those: One night I took ben a roasted fiſh in one hand, and a piece of bread in the other; the old gentleman was ſo ſaucy he would not take it, and told me, I ſhould bring him nothing without a plate below it. The ſame night, as he was going to bed, he called for his ſlippers and a piſh-pot: So, I clapt in a plate below the piſh-pot; and another below the ſlippers, and ben I goes, one in every hand: No ſooner did I enter the room, than he threw the piſh-pot at me, which broke