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dearb: Alelieu, dear honey, and where did he kill, him, said I: in his bed said he; O what for a cowardly action was that, said I, to kill a man in his bed and what is he this fellow death, said I? What is he, he is one that kills more than the headbutcher in an Cork does; Arra, dear honey, said I, if he had been on Newry mountain, with his brogs on, and his broad sword by his side, all the deaths to Iceland had not kill’d him: O that impudent fellow death, if he had letten him alone till he had a died for want of butter milk and potatoes, I am sure he would have lived all the days of his life.
Tom. In all your travels, when abroad, did you never see none of your countrymen, to inform you or what happened at home concerning your relation? Teag Arra dear shoy, I saw none but Tom Jack one day on the street; but when I came to him, it was not him, but one just like him.
Tom. On what account did you go a travelling?
Teag. Why a decruiting sergeant lifted me to be a captain, and after all advanced me no higher than a so'dier itself, but only he called me his dear courtryman recruit; for I did not know what the regiment was when I saw them, I thought they were all gentlemens sons and collegenors, when I saw a box like a bible upoe their bellies: until I saw G tor king George upon it, and R for G—d bless him; ho, ho, said I, I shaint be long here.
Tom. O then Pady, you deserted from them-
Teag. Ay, that’s what I did, and run to the mountains like a wild buck, and ever since when I see any soldiers I close my eyes, left they should look and know me.
Tom. And what exploits did you do when you was a soldier?
Teag. Arra, dear shoy, I kill’d a man.
Tom. And how did you that? Teag. Arra dear honey when he dropt his sword, I drew mine, and
