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 Of Pady from Cork 19 ere we came all tafe athore. But all the comfort pt from him was a word of truth. Hom. And what was that Pady? miteag. Why he told me, if I had been a good boy home, I needed not to have gone ſo far to puſh fortune with an empty pocket; to which I an- ered, and what magnifies that, as long as I am a od workman at no trade at all. icom. I ſuppoſe, Pady, the gentleman would make i dine with him. beag. I really thought I was, when I ſaw them ating and ſkinning ſo many black chickens, which is nothing but a few dead crows they were going leat; ho, ho, ſaid I, them is but dry meat at the mat, of all the fowls that flies, compare me to the ng of an ox; but all that came to my ſhare, was iece of boil'd herring and a roaſted potatoe, that to the firſt bit of bread I ever eat in England. om, We'll pady, what, buſineſs did you follow er in England, when you was ſo poor. reag. What fir, do you imagine I was poor en I came over on ſuch an honourable occasion as lift, and bring myſelf to no preferment at all. As ! is an able bodied man in the face, I thought to made a brigadeer, a grenadeer, or a fuzleer, or on one of them blue gowns that holds the fiery k to the bung hole of the big cannons, when y let them off, to fright away the French; I was fure as no man alive ere I came from Cork, the it preferment I could get, was to be riding maſter a regiment of marines, or one of the black horſe lif. om. Well pady, you ſeem to be a very clever le mart, to be all in one body, what height are ? eag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I am five foot nothing all One inch. cm. And where in England was it you liſted?