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 COMICAL SAYINGS of PADDY from CORK

PART I.

Tom. Good morrow, Sir, thiſ iſ a very cold Teag. Arra dear honey, yeſternight a very cold morning. Tom. Well brother travelir, of what nation thou. Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I came from my kingdom. Tom. Why ſir, I know that but where is kingdom. Teag. Allelieu dear honey, don't you know in Ireland. Tom. O you fool, Cork is not a kingdom aj city, Teag. Then dear ſhoy, I'am ſure it is in a k dom. Tom. And what was the reaſon you have a and left your own dear country! Teag. Arra dear honey, by ſhaint Patrick, have got ſuch comical laws in our country, they'll put a man to death in perfect health; # be free and plain with you, neighbour, I was of d to come away, I did not chooſe to ſtay an ſuch people that can hang a poor man when please, if he entitermals, robs, or kills a man Tom. Ay, but I take you to be more of an hala man, than to ſteal rob, or kill a man. Teag. Honeſt, I am perfectly honeſt, when I but a child, my mother would have truſted me a houſe full of milnſtones. Tom. What was the matter, was you guil nothing Teag. Arra dear honey, I did harm to nob but fancied an old gentleman's gun, and after wel made it my own. Tom. Very well born and did you keep i