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 The Comical Sayings &c.

Teag. Keep it, I would have kept it with all my eart while I lived, death itſelf could not have part- 1 us, but the old rogue, the gentleman, being, a ftice of the peace himſelf, had me tried for the Jghts of it, and how I came by it, and ſo took it: Tom. And how did you clear yourſelf without puniſhment? Teag, Arra dear ſhoy, I told them a parcel of es, but they would not believe me; for I ſaid that got it from my father when it was a little piſtol, hd I had keep'd it till it ad grown a gun, and was ligned to uſe it well, until it had grown a bigan- on, and then ſold it to the military. They all ll a laughing at me as I had been a fool,and bade home up my mother and clear the potatoes. Tom. And how long is it ſince you left your own cuntry. Teag. Arra dear honey, I do not mind whether be a fortnight or four months, but I think myſelf is a long time; they tell me my mother is dead but I won't believe it, until I get a letter from er own hand, or ſhe isla very good ſcholar, up- bfe ſhe can neither read nor write.. Tom. Was you r in England before. Teag. Ay that I was, and in Scotland too. Tom. And were they kind to you when you was Scotland. Teag. They were that kind that they kickt my rſe for me, and the riaſon was, becauſe I would pot pay the whole of the liquor that was drank in me pmpany, thd' the landlord and his two tons por E ourful abuut of it; they would have me pay it 1, though I did not drink it all and I told them it as a trick upon travellers firſt to drink his liquor, lib hid then to kick him out of doors. Tom. I really think they uſed you badly, but ruld you not beat them.