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 PADY FROM CORK, 13 Irammer, with an Iriſh ſixpenny plece, to pay her paſſige at the gate, and what more could ſhe lock for. Tom. I really think you gave' her enough along with her, But you ought to have cried for her; as if it was no more but to be in the faſhion. Teag. And why ſhould I cry without ſorrow, when We hired two criers to cry all the way before her, to keep in the faſhion. Tom. And what do they' cry before a dead woman? Teag. Why, they cry the common cry, or funeral la- ment that is uſed in our Iriſh country. Toni. And what manner of cry is that Pady? Teag. Dear Tom, if you don't know I'll tell you, when any dies there is a number of criers before, ſaying, luff, luff, fou, allelicu, dear honey, what aileth thee to die, it was not for want of good butter, milk and potatoes.

PART III. Tom. WELL Pady, and what did you do alien your wife died? Teag. Dear honey, what would I da; do you think I was ſuch a big fool as to die too; I'm ſure if I lad, I would not have got fair play, when I am not ſo old yet as my father was when he died. Tem No, Pady, that is not what I mean, but was you ſorry, or did you weep for her! Teag. Weep for her, by ſnaint Patrick I would not weep for her, nor yet be ſorry ſuppoſe my own mother and all the women in Ireland had died ſeven years before I was born. Tom. What did you do with your children when the died? Teag. Do you imagine I was ſuch a big fool as bury my children alive along with a dead woman. Arra, dear honey, eady comnionly give sotning along with a dead perſon, Lee an old ſhirt and a winding ſthee, a big lammer, with a long.ca: dle and an Irish Ialfpenny piece. Tom. Dear Pady, aid what uſe co they take of all this? Teag. Then, Tom, Couce you are ſo inquiſitivo you may go and aſk the prieit.