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 14 PADY FROM CORK.

Tom. What did you make of your children then Pady? Teag. And what ſhould I make of them, do you ima- gine that I ſhould give them into the hands of the but- chers as they had been a parcel of young hogs, by ſhaint Patrick, I had more anaturality in me, than to any hoſpital as others do. Tom. No, I ſuppoſe you would leave them with your friends ers you came away. Teag. Ay, ay, a poor man's friends is ſometimes worſe than a profeſſed enemy: the beſt friend I ever lash in the world' was my own pocket while my money laſted.; - but I left my two babe between the prieſt's door, and the pariſh church, becauſe I thought it was a place of mercy, and then ſet out to England in queſt of another fortune. Tom. And did you not take good night with your friends cre you came away ? Teag. Arra dear honey I had no friends in the world but an Iriſh half crown, and I would have been very for- Fy to have parted with ſuch a dear, pocket companion at ſuch a time. Tim. I fancy Pady you came off with what they call a moon-ſhine fliting? Teag. You lie like a thief so, for J did not fee fun, moon, nor ſtars all the night then; for I let out from Cork at the down of night, and I travelled twenty, intles and but twelve before glooming in the morning Tom. And where did you go to take ſhipping ? Teag. Arra dear honey, I came to a country village, called Dublin as big a city as any market town in all. England, where I got myſelf on board a little young boat, with a parcel of follows and a long leather bag l ſuppoſed them to be tinkers until I aſked what they carried there in that leather bag; they told me it was the Engliſh -nail they were going over with then ſaid I, is the milns ſo ſeant in England, that they muſt ſend over their con to Ireland to grind it; the comical curning Suk ws perſuaded me it was ſo, then went do si to a little houſe below the water, hard by the pigg back of the boat, and laid me down on the leather ſuch, where I ſlept myſelt almoſt to death with longer. And dear Tom; to tell you plainly, when I awaked, I did not know where I was, but thought