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e would not take it, and told me, I ſhould bring m nothing without a trencher below it; the fame ght as he was going to bed, he called for his flip- Pers and a piſhpot, ſo I clapt in a trencher below Sie th-pot, and another below the flippers, and ben goes, one in every hand: no founer did I enter e room, then he threw the pishpot at me which oke both my head and the pish-pot at one blow pe, ſaid I, the devil is in my maſter altogether, for hat he commands at one time, he contermands 46 other. Next day I went with him to the market buy a ſuck of potatoes, I went to the potatoe- onger, and aſked what he took for the fall of a otch cos, he weighed them in, he aſked no leſs can four pence, fourpence fait !, if I were But in blin, I could get the fall of that for nothing, d in Cork and Kinfale far cheaper, them is but hall things like peaſe, ſaid I, but the potatoes in y country, are as big as your head, fine meat all elinde up in bleſſed mouthſouls; the potatoe mer- an called me a liar, and my maſter called me a lol, ſo the one fill a kicking me, and the other a ffing me, I was in ſuch bad bread between them, at I called myſelf both a liar and a fool to get off Tom. And how did you carry your potatoes home om the market? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I carried the horſe and em both, beſides a big loaf and two bottles of line; for I put a horſe on my back, and drove e potatoes before me, and when I tied the load the loaſ, I had nothing ado but carry the bottles my hand, but bad luck to the way as I came pane, for a nail out of the heel of my foot ſprung leak in my brog, which pricked this very boac, duired the ſkin, and made my brog itfelt.to blood; hd I having no hammer by me, but a hatcict I ft at home, I had to beat down the sail with the