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 Of Pady from Cork. 17 hey call a moon ſhine fitting. Teag. You lie like a thief now, for I did not fee un, moon, nor ſtars, all the nighr then, for I ſet out from Cork at the dawn of night, and I had travelled twenty miles all but twelve, before gloam- ng in the morning, Tom. And where did you go to take ſhipping? Teag. Arra dear honey, I came to a country vil- lage, called Dublin, as big a city as any market town in all England, where I got myſelf on board of a little young boat, with a parcel of Allors, and a long leather bag, I ſuppoſed them to be tinkers un. il laſked what they carried in that leather ſack, hey told me it was the Engliſh mail they were go ng over with; then ſaid, I, is the milns ſo ſeant in England, that they muſt fend over their corn to sreland to grind it: the comical cunning fellows erſuaded me, it was lo; then I went down to a little houſe below the water, hard by the rigg back the boat, and laid me down on their leather ſack, where I ſlept myſelf almoſt to death with hunger, And dear tom to tell you plainly, when and ! id not know where I was, but thought I was dead Ind buried, for I found nothing all around me but rooden walls and timber above. Tom. And how did you come to yourſelf, to know there you was, at la? Teag. By the law, dear ſhoy, I ſcratched my ead in a hundred parts, and then ſet me down to pink upon it, ſo I minded that it was my wife that tas dead, and not me, and that I was alive in the cung poſt boat, with the fellows that carries over Engliſh meal from the Iriſh milns. Tom. O then Pady, I am ſure you was glad when We found yourſelf alive? Teag. Arra dear ſnoy, I was very ſure I was alive, n I did not think to live long, ſo I thought it was tter for me to ſteal int be hand, than to live