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 4 PADY FROM CORK.

Teag. Ay, ay, you have it, then I was a gentleman's broom only waited on his horſes, and waſhed the diſhes for the cook : and when my maſter rode a hunting, I ran behind along with the dogs. Tem. O yes Pady, it was the groom you mean, but I fancy you was cook's mate or kitchen-boy. Teag. No, no, it was the Uroom that I was, and if I had ſaid there till now, I might have been advanced as high as my maſter, for the ladies loved me ſo well, that they laughed at me. Tom. They might admire you for a fool s... Teag. What fir do you imagine that I am not a fool, no, no, my maſter asked counſel of me in all his matters. and I always gave him raſons for every thing I told him one morning that he went too ſoon to the hunting, that the hares were not got out of their beds ; and nei- ther the barking of horns, nor blowing of the dogs could make them rife, it w. s luch a cold morning that night; ſo they all ran away the we catched, which we did not ſee them. Then my maſter told my words to ſeveral gen- tlemen that was in at dinner with him, and they admired me for want of wiſdom, ſaying, I was certainly a 'nan o great judgment, for my head was all of a lump, and added they were going a-fiſhing along with my maſter and me in the afternoon but I told them, it was a very unhappy thing for any man to go a hunting in the morning and a fiſhing in the afternoon : yet they would try it ; but they had better ſtaid at home, for it came on a moſt terrible fine night of ſouth-weſt rain and even down wind; ſo the fiſhes got all in below the water to keep them dry from the ſhower, and we catched them all, but got none of them. Tom. And how long did you ſerve that gentleman ? Teag. Arra, dear honey, I was with him ſix weeks and he beat me ſeven times. Tom. For what did he beat you? was it for оu madneſs and fooliſh tricks? Tom. Dear ſhoy, it was not, but for being too inqui- ſitive and going ſharply about buſines. First, he ſent me to the poſt office, to enquire if there was any letters for him; ſo when I came there ſaid is there any let- ters here for my maſter to day? l'hen they aſked me who was my maſter; ſir, ſaid I, it is very bad manners in you