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 6 The Comical Sayings

you take ſixpence for that ſmall thing, and ſelling bigger ones for twopence, faith. I am not ſuch a big fool; you think to cheat me, now, this is not a con- Icionable way of dealing, I'll acquaint my maſter of it firſt, ſo I came and told my maſter as they would have ſixpence for his letter, and was ielling bigger ones for twoperce, he took up my head and broke his cane with it, calling me a thouſand fools, ſay- ing, the man was more juſt than to take any thing! but the right for it; but I was ſure there was none »f the right buying and ſelling ſuch dear penny worths; ſo I came again for my dear ſixpence letter and as the fellow was ſhuffing thro' a parcel o them, ſeeking for it again, to make the beſt of dear market, I pick't up two, and home I comes t my maſter, thinking he would be well pleaſed with what I had done, now ſaid !, maſter, I think I lav put a trick on them fellows, for ſelling the letter To dear to you. What have you done? ſaid he ſaid I, Pre only taken two other letters, here's on for you, maſter, to help your dear pennywerit and I'll ſend the other to my mother to ſee wherbe ſhe be dead or alive, for ſhe's always angry when don't write to her, I had not the word well ſpoker till he got up his ſtick and beat me heartily for i and ſent me back to the fellows again with the twee I had very ill will to go, but nobody would bu them of me by the way. Tom: A well, Pady, I think you was to blame and your maſter too, for he ought to have tzug! you how to have gone about thoſe affairs and na beat you lo. Teag. Arra dear honey, I had too much with my own to be teached by him, or any body elſe, hegan to inſtruct me after this, bow I ſhould fer The table, and ſuch naſty things as thoſe; one nig I took ben roeted fiſh in one hand, and a piece bread in the other, the old gentleman was to laul