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 ( 21 ) will live a long time after we are dead; when we die in love with the prieſts, and the good people of our profeſſion. Tom. Whist aſſurance can your prieſts give you of that. Pady. Ar dear ſhoy, our prieſt is a great ſaint, and a good ſhoul, who can repeat a pater noſter, and Ava Maria, which will fright the very horned deveil himſelf, and make him run for it, until he be like to fall, and break his neck. Tom. And what does he give you when you are dying that makes you came alive again. - Pady. Why he writes a letter upon ar tongur, fel. ed with water, gives us a ſacrament is out mouth, with a pardon, and direction in our right hand, who to call for at the ports of Purgatory. Tom. And what entertaiment will you get when you are in. Pady O my dear we are all kept there until a gene- ral review which is commonly once in the weck: and all the blackguard ſcoundrile is pickt out of the ranks, and one hall of them is ſent away to the Elyan fields to carry the weeds from among the potatoes, the other half of them to the river Sticks to catch fiſhes for ſhaint Patrick's table and all them that is owing the price any money, is put in the black-bolt and then given into the hands of a great black bitch of a devil, which they keep for a hangman, who whip them up and down the ſmoaky dungeon every morning for fix months, then holds their bare back ſide to a great fire, until their hips be all in one bliſter, and after all they are ſent away ta the poor pariſh of Pigtration, where they'll get nothing to eat but cold lowes, burgue and buttermilk. Tom. And where does you good people go when they are ſeparted from the bed ? Pady. Hot where would you have them to go, but into the garden of Eden now called Paradiſes ah! my pear ſhoy, this is the real fundamental truths of our Ro- miſh Religion, and deep doctrine it is, but your Preſby- terean, and Engliſh church men will not believe it, and by fhaint Patrick, facither can I, until I fee more of it come to pala