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 2 COMICAL SAYINGS OF PADY FROM CORK.

PART I. Tom. Good morrow Sir, this is a very cold day. Teag. Arra, dear honey, yeſernight was a very cold morning Tom. Well brother traveller, of what nation art thou? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy I came from my own kingdom Tom. Why ſir, I know that but where is thy kingdom Teag. Allelieu, dear honey, don't you know Cork is Ireland ? Tom. O you fool. Cork is not a kingdom but a city. Teag. Then dear honey. I am ſure it is fola kingdom Tom. And what is the reaſon you have come and left your own dear country. Teag. Arra, dear honey, by ſhaint Patrick, they have got ſuch comical laws in our country, that they'll put man to death in perfect health; for to be free and plain with you neighbour, I was obliged to come away for did not chuse to ſtay among such a people that can hand a poor man when they pleaſe, if be either ſteals, robs o kills a man. Tom. Ay. but I take you to be more of an honeſt ma than to ſteal, rob, or kill a man. Teag. Honeſt I am perfectly honeſt, when I was bus a child my mother would have truſted me with a houſeful of mill ſtones. Tom. What was the matter was you guilty of nothing Teag. Arra dear honey, I did harm to no body, but fancied an old gentlemans gun and afterwards made Tom. Very well boy, and did you keep it ſo. Teag. Keep it I would have kept it with all my hear while I liv'd death itself would not have parted us, but the old rogue the gentleman being a juſtice of the peac himſelf had me tried for the rights of it, and low I came by it and ſo took it again. Tom. And how did you clear yourſelf without puniſh! Teag. Arra dear honey, I told them a parcel of lies but they would not believe me, for I ſaid that I got from my father when it was a little piſtol, and I had