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 PADY FROM CORK. 9 to the world's end, if ſome part of the world had not catched her by the foot. Tom. I fancy, Pady, you was by this time very ſick ? Teag. Sick, ay, ſick beyond all ſickneſs, clean dead as a door nail ; for as I had lost the key of my backſide, I bocked up the very bottom of my belly, and I thought that liver and lungs, and all that I had, ſhould have gone together; then I called to the fellow that held by her tail behind to pull down his feet and hold her head, till I got leiſure to die and then fay my prayers. Tom. Well then, Pady, got you ſafe afore at laſt? Teag. Ay, we came aſhore very faſt; but by ſhaint Patrick, I ſhall never venture my dear ſhoul and body in ſuch a young boat again while the wind blows out of Scots Galloway. Tom. Well then, Pady, and where did you go when you came to Ireland again? Teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, and where did I go but to my own dear coulin, who was now become very rich by the death of the old buck his father, who died but a few weeks before I went over, and the pariſh had to bury him out of pity, it had not to coſt him a farthing, Ton. And what entertainment or goo udſage did you get there, Pady Teag. O my dear ſhoy, I was as kindly uſed as another gentleman, for I told him I had made ſomething of it by my travels as well as himſelf, but I had got no money, there fore I had to work for my victuals while I ſtaid with him. Ton. Ho, poor Pady, I ſuppuſe you would not ſtay long there. Teag Arra dear honey, I could have ſaid there long enough: but when a mas is poor his iriet is think little of him: I told him I was going to lee my brother Hara ry: Harry, ſaid he. Harry in dead; dead, 'Laid I, and who kilied him: Why, ſaid, he, death. Alledieu. dear honey, and where did he kill him? ſaid I : in his bed, ſaid he. what for a cowardly action was that, ſaid I, to kill a man in his bed; and what is this fellow, death, ſaid I. What is lie, he is one that kills more than the head butcher in all Cork does. Arra dear honey, ſaid I, it he had been Nevry mountains with his brogues