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more, but this bargain did not last long, for as I was kissing his mouth, by shaint Patrick, I did bite his nose, which caused him beat me very sore for my pains.
Tom. Well Pady, what calling was you when in Scotland? Teag. Why, Sir, I was no business at all; but what do you call the green tree that’s like a whin burn, many people makes a thing to sweep the house of it.
Tom. O yes Pady, it was a groom you mean, but I fancy you was but cook’s mate, or kitchen-boy. Teag. No, no, it was the broom that I was, and I had stayed there till now. I might have been advanced as high as my mailer, for the ladies loves me so well, that they laughed at me.
Tom. Ay, they might admire you for a fool.
Teag. Warn, Sir, do you imagine l am not a fool, no, no, my master asked counsel of me in all his matters, and I always gave him a reason for everything. I told him one morning, that he went too soon to the hunting, that the hares was not got out of their beds, and neither the barking of borns, nor the blowing of dogs could make them rise, it was such a cold morning that night; so they all ran away that we catched when we did not see them. Then my master told my words to several gentlemen that was at dinner with him and they admired me for my want wisdom saying, I was certainly a man of great judgement, for my head was all in a lump; added, they were going to fishing along with my master and me in the afternoon, but I told them that 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 stayed 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
