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 16 PADY FROM CORK. Teag. Ay, ay, drowned, ae clean drowned as a fiſh, for the ſea blew very loud, and the wind ran ſo high, that we were all call away ſafe on shore, and not one of us drowned at all. Tom. And where did you go when you came on ſhore? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I was not able to go any Where, you might have cat a knot on my belly, I was ſo hollow in the middle: ſo I went into a gentleman's houſe and told then the bad fortune I had of being drowned between Ireland and the foot of his garden, where we came all ſafe on ſhore. But all the comfort I got from him was a word of truth. Tom. And what was that. Pady? Teag. Why, he told me if I had been a good boy at home, I need 110t to have gone ſo far to puſh my for- tune with an empty pocket To which I anſwered, and what ſignifies that, as long as I am a good workman at no trade at all. Tom. I ſuppoſe, Pady, the gentleman would make you dine with him? Teag. I really thought I was when I ſaw then toast- ing and ſkinning ſo many black chickens which was no- thing but a ſew dead crow they were going to eat: ho, ho, ſaid I, them in but dry meat at the belt, of all the fowls that flics, commend me to the wing of an ox, but all that came to my ſhire, was a piece of a boiled her. ring and a roaſted potato., that was the firſt bit of meat I ever ate in England. Tom. Well Pady, what buſineſs did you follow after in England when you was ſo poor? Tag. What fir do you imagine I was ſo poor when I came over on ſuch an honourable occaſion as to lift and bring myſelf to no preferment at all. As I was an able- bodied man in the face, I thought to be made a briga- diar, a grenadirt or a fuzzilier, or even one of them blue gowns that holds the fiery flick to the bung-hole of il: big cagnots, when they let them off to tright away the French; I was as freas no maalive, cre I came from Cak, the leaſt preferment I could get, was to be rjun - Taller to a regiment of marines, or one of the black hule istif.