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 18 The Comical Sayings all my days, and die directly with hunger at laſt. tom. What bad you no meat nor money alone with you? teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I gave all my money to th captain of the houſe, or goodman of the ſhip, carry me into the ſea, or over to England, and whe I was like to eat my old brogues for want of victuals I drew my hanger and cut the lock off their leather ſack, thinking to get a lick of their meal; but lelieu dear ſhoy, i found nothing, meal nor feed but a parcel of papers and letters, a poor morſel il deed for a hungery man! tom. O then pady you laid down your honeſ for nothing. teag. Ay, ay, I was a great thief, but got nothing to ſeal. tom. And how did you come to get vituals at la teag. Allelieu dear honey, the thoughts of me and drink, death and life, and every thing elſe w out of my head, I had not a thought but one. tom. And what was that Pady? teag. to go down among the fiſhes and become whale, then I would have lived an eaſy life all r days, having nothing to do but drink ſalt water and eat caller oyſters. tom. What, Pady, was you like to be drown again. teag. Ay, ay drown'd as cleanly drown'd as a fi! for the ſea blew ſo very loud, and the wind ran high that we were all caſt away ſafe on ſhore; al not one of us drown'd at all. tom. And where did you go, whin you camec ſhore. teag. Arra dear honey, I was not able to go a where, you might caſt a knot on my belly, I was hollow in my middle; ſo I went into a gentleman houſe and told him the bad fortune I had of be drown'd between Ireland and the foot of his gard