Page:Comical sayings of Pady from Cork (1).pdf/16

 16 The Comical Sayings not weep nor yet be ſorry ſuppoſe my own mother and all the women in Ireland had died ſeven year before I was born. Tom. What did you do with your children when ſhe died, Teag. Do you imagine I was ſuch a big fool bury my children alive, along with dead women Arra dear honey, we always commonly give nothing along with a dead perſon, but an old ſhirt, a wind ing- ſheet, a big hammer, with a long candle, an an Iriſh ſilver threepenny piece. Tom. Dear Pady, and what uſe do they make a all them things. Teag. Then Tom, ſince you are ſo inquiſitive you moſt go aſk the prieſt. Tom. What did you make of your children the Pady. Teag. And what ſhould I make of them, do yo imagine that I ſhould give them into the hands c the butchers, as, they had been a parcel of your hogs, by ſhaint Patrick, I had more unnaturality is me; than put them in an hoſpital as many do. Ton. No, I ſuppose you would leave them with your friends? Ttag.-Ay, ay, a poor man's friends is ſometime worſe than a profeſt enemy, the beſt friend I eve had in the world, was my in pocket while my money laſted, but left my two barbus between the prieſts doer and the parish church, becauſe I thoug! it was a place of mercy, and then let out for Eng- land in quel of anoiher fortune. Tom. And did you not take good night wit your friends ere you care a way? Teag. Arra dear honey I had no friends in t? world, b: an Iriſh half crown, and I would hall been very ſorry to parted with ſuch a' dear pock compinion at ſuch a time. Tom. I fancy Pady you've com'd off with w