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 Of Pady front Cork. 21 fing for my hat, they made me ſwear the malici- s oath of devilrie againſt the King, the colours, id my captain, telling me if ever I deſert and not n away, then I ſhould be ſhot, and then whipt dicach, through the regiment. Ton. No Pady, It is firſt whipt. and then ſhot mean. Teag Arra dear ſhoy, it is all in one thing at laſt, it is beſt to be ſhot, and then whip, the clever- way to die f'll warrant you.. Tom. How much pay did you get, pady? teag. Do you know the little fat tall ferjeant that dine to be a ſoldier? Tom. :d how ſhould I know them I never ſaw 1 fool? eag. Dear ſhoy, you may know him whether you him cr nor; for his face is all bor'd in big holes h the ſmall pox, his noſe has the colour of a fter-toe, and his chin like a well waſhen potatoe: is the biggeſt regue in our kingdom, you'll know a when he cb=heats you, and the wide world; and Bther mark, he dights his mouth before he nks, and blows his neſe before he take a ſnuff; rogue height me a pence a day, kill or no
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ether, and all the days in one day, I can't make lenny above fivepence of it. som. You ſhould have kept an account, and aſk'd rarrears once a month, that's what I did, but he read a pater nof- out of his prayer.book, wherein all our names written; ſo much for a ſtop-hold to my gun, to kles, to a pair of comical barn hole, with lea. for buttons from top to toe; and worſt of all, he kald have no leſs then a penny a week to a doc- arra, ſaid I, I never had a fore finger, nor yet ick toe, all the days of my life, then what have do with the doctor, or the doctor to do with me?