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 5 Of Pady from Cork. hired me for want of wiſdom, ſaying, I was cer- ainly a man of great judgment, for my head was l of a lump, added, they were going a filing a- bng with my maſter and me in the afternoon; but told them that it was a very unhappy thing for zny man to go a bunting in the morning and a fiſh- ng in the afternoon: ) et they would try it at they ad better ſtaid at home, for it came on a mette ble night of ſouth weſt rain, and even down wind; btheithes got all below the water to keep then dry from the ſhower, and we catch't them all but got one of them, Tom and how long did you ſerve that gentle cran, Pady. bol Teag. Arra dear honey, I was with him ſix weeks and he beat me ſeven times. Tom. For what did he beat you! was it for your adneſs and fooliſh tricks? son Teag. Dear ſhoy, it was not, but for being too als quilitive and going ſharply about buſineſs. Firſt, le ſent me to the post office, to enquire if there poutas ang letters for him; lo sben I came there, ſaid Manual is there any letters here for my maſter to day? i when they aſked me who was my maſter, ſir, ſaid, is very bad manners in you to aſk any gentleman's me. At this they laughed mocking me, and ſaid hey could give me none, it I would not tell ny till after's name, ſo I returned to my maſter, and told le impudence of the fellow, how he would give we no letters unleſs I would tell him your name; after, My maſter at this flew in a great paſſion, wid kick’t me down ſtairs, ſaying, Go you rogue, cond tell my name directly, how can the gentleman ve letters, when he knows not who is a king for bem. Then I returned and told my maſter's name, they told me there was one for him, I looked at being but very ſmall, and aſked the price of it, oley told me it was ſixpence, ſixpence, ſaid I, will