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 PADY FROM CORK. 7

Tom. And how did you recompence your maſter for the loſs of your bottle of wine. Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, I had a mind to cheat him and myſelf too for I took the bottle away to the black- ſmith and deſired him to mend it, that I might go to the butcher and get it full of bloody water, but he told me he could not work in any thing but feel and iron. Arra. ſaid I. if I were in my own kingdom, I could get a blackſmith who could make a bottle out of a ſong and a ſtone out of nothing. Tom. And how did you trick your maſter out of the Teag. Why the old man began to chide me, asking me how I broke it, then I held up the other as high as my head, and let it fall on the ground on a ſtone which broke it all to pieces likewiſe; cow ſaid I, maſter, that's the way, and then ne beat me very heartily, until I had to ſhout out murder and mercy, all at once. Tom. Why did you not leave him when he uſed you I so badly? Teag. Arra dear ſhoy I could never think to leave hiss while I could cat, lie gave me ſo many good victuals, and promiſed to prefer me to be his own bone picker; but by ſhaint Patrick, I had to run away with my life or all was done, elſe I had loft my dear ſhoul and body too, by hin, and then, I came home much poster than I went away. The great big bitch dog that was toy maſter's bet beloved, put in her head into a pitcher to lick out ſome milk, when it was in the could not get it out, and I to ſave the pitcher got the hatchet and cut off the dog's head, and then I had to break the pitcher before I got out the head, by this I loſt both the dog and the pitcher. My mater, hearing this, ſwore he would cut the head off me, for the poor dog was made uſeleſs and could not fee to follow any body for want of his eyes; and when I heard of this, I ran away my own head, for if I had wanted it, I had loſt my eyes too. then I would not have ſeen the road to Port Patrick, through Glennap, but by ſhaint Patrick, I came home alive in ſpite of them all. Ton. O rarely done, Pady, you behaved like a man