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 8 The Comical Sayings

bottom of the bottle; and by the hook, dear it broke to pieces, and ſeattered the wine in o mouth. Tom. And how did you recompence your man for the loſs of your bottle of wine? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I had a mind to cheat hil and myſelf too, for I took the bottle away to blackſmith, and deſired him to tucndit, that I might no to the butchers and get it full of bloody wat but he told me he could not work in any shing Il cel and iron. Arra, ſaid I, il re in nyo kingdom, I could get a blackin:ith who could ma a bettle out of a ſtone, and a ſtone out of nothir Tom. And how did you trick your maſter of it? Teag. Why, the old rogue began to chide aſking me what way I broke it, then I held up other as high as my head, and let it fall to t ground on a ſtone which broke it all to pieces lil wife: now, ſaid I, maſter, that's the way, and th le beat me very beartily, until I had to ſhout men and murder all at once. Tom. Why did you not leave him when he at you ſo badly? Teatr. Arra dear hoy, I could never think leave him while I could eat, he gave me ſo ma good viduals and promiſed to preſcribe to his o bone picker, but by ſhaint Patrick, I had to run way with my life or alt was done, elle.I had lofts dcar ſhoul and bouy too by hin, and then I can home much poorer than I went away. The big bitch dog that was my master's beſt bclove Tut his head into a picchier to lick cur ſome mi five the pitcher, get the hatchet and cur ofi't dog's beat, uten I had to break the pitcher i fort I gonour the head, by this I loft both the di ant the plicher. My maſter, hearing of this fic
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