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the juſt and clearing the guilty, do you know how they call the horſes mother. Tom. Why they call her a marc. Teag. A mare, aye very well minded, by ſhaint Pa- trick my father was a mare in Co-k. Tom. And what riches was left you by the death of your mother? Teag. A bad luck to her old barren belly, for the lived in great plenty and died in great poverty, devoured up all or ſhe died, but two hens and a pockful of potatoes a poor eſtate for an Iriſh gentleman in faith. Tom. And what did you make of your bens and pota- toes, did you low them? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I ſowed them in my belly and fold the hens to a cadger. Tom. And what buſineſs did your mother follow after?' Teag. Greatly in the merchant way. Tom. And what forts of goods did the deal in? Dear honey ſhe went through the country and. fold Trial fiſhes, onions and apples; bought hens and eggs. and then hatched them herſelf. I remember of one long necked cock ſhe had of an over ſea brood that food on the midden and picked all the ſtais out of the north-weſt, ſo they were never ſo thick there ſince, Tom. Now Pady that's a bull ſurpaſſes all; but is there none of the cock's offspring alive in Ireland now?' Teag. Arra daar ſhoy I don't think there are is a pity there had not, for they would fly with people a- bove the ſea which would put the uſe of ſhips out of faſhion, and there would be nobody drown'd. at ſea at all. Tom. Very well Pady; but in all your travels did you ever get a wife? Teag. O that's what I did and a wicked wife too. Tom. And what is become of her now? Terg, Dear ſhay I can't tell whither the is gone to Purgatory, or the Pariſh of ligtransum, for ſhe told me ſhe would certainly die the firſt opportunity he could get, as tsispre nt evil world was not worth the waiting only ſo the would go and ſee what good things is in the world o come; and when that old rover called the fever came aging like a madman over the whole kingdom knocking