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 which made her gallop up out hill and down another, till I thought she would have run to the world’s end, if some part of the world had not catcht her by a foot.

Tom. I fancy, Pady, by this time you was very! sick? Teag. Sick, ay sick beyond all sickness, clean dead as a door-nail, for as I had lost the key of my back-side, I back’d up iron the bottom of my belly, and I thought that liver and lung and all that I had, should have gone together, then I called to the fellow that held her by the tail behind, to pull down his sheet and hold her head till I got leisure to die, and then say my prayers.

Tom. Well then Pady, and got you safe ashore I at last? Teag. Ay we came ashore very fast but, by shaint Patrick, I shall never venture dear shoul and body in such a young boat again while the winds; bow out of Scots Galloway.

Tom. well Pady, and where did you go when you came to Ireland again? Teag. Arra, dear honey, and where did I go but to my own dear cussins, who now was become very rich by the death of the old buck his father, who died but few weeks before I went over, and the parish had to bury him out of pity, it did not cost him a farthing.

Tom. And what entertainment or good usage did you get there Pady? Teag. O my dear shoy, I was kindly used as another gentleman, for I told him I bad made something of it, by my travels as well as himself; but I had got no money, therefore I had to work for my victuals while I stayed with, him.

Tom. Ho, poor Pady, I suppose you would not stay long there?

Teag. Arra dear honey, I could have stayed there, long enough, but when a man is poor his friends thinks but little of him: I told him I was going to see my brother Hary: Hary said he, Hary is dead. Dead, said I, and who kill’d him? Why, said he,