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 PADY FROM CONK. 15 I was dead and buried, for, I found nothing all around me but wooden walls and timber above. Tom. And how did you come, to yourſelf, to know where you was at laſt? Teag. By the law dear honey, I ſeratched my head in a hundred parts, and then ſet, me down to think upon it, ſo I minded it was my wife that was dead, and not me, and that I was alive in the young poſt boat, with the fellows that carries over the English meal to the Iriſh: milns. Tom. O then, Pady, I am sure you was glad when you found yourſelf alive? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I was very ſure I was alive, but I did not think to live long, ſo I thought it was better for me to ſteal and be hanged than to live all my days and die directly of hunger at laſt. Tom. What had you no meet for money along with you? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy, I gave all my money to the captain of the houſe, or goodman of the ſhip to carry me into ſea or over to England, and when I was like to eat my old brogues for want of victuals, I draw my hanger and cut the locks of their leather ſack, thinking to get a lick of their meal; but allelieu dear tho, I found neither meal nor ſeeds, but a parſel of papers and letters, a poor morſel indeed for a hungry man, Tom. So then Pady you laid down your honeſty for nothing. Teag. Ay, ay, I was a great thief, but got nothing to ſtaal. Tom. And how did you come to get victuals at lift? Teag. Allelicu, dear honey, the thought of meat and drink, death or life, and every thing elſe was cut of my mind, I had dot a thought but one. Tom. And what was that Pady. Teag. To go down mong the fiſhes and become a whale, then I would have lived an eaſy life all my days, having nothing to do but drink ſalt water, and eat caller oyſters. Tom. What. Pady was you like to be drowned again,