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between the priest door and the parish church, because I thought it was a piece of mercy; and then, set out for England in quest of another fortune.
Tom. And did you not take goodnight with your friends or you same away? Teag. Arra dear honey, I had no friends in all the world but an Irish half crown, and would a been very sorry to part with such a dear pocket-companion at such a time.
Tom. I fancy Pady you com’d off with what they call a moonshine slitting? Teag. You lie like a thief now, for I did not see sun, moon nor stars all the night, and I had travelled twenty mites all but twelve before gloming in the morning.
Tom. And where did you go to take shipping?
Teag. Arra dear honey, I came to a country village called Dublin as big a city as any market-town in all England, where I got myself lodged on board of a little young boar, with a paved of fellow, and a long leather bag. I supposed them to be tinkers until I asked what they carried in that leather sack; they told me, it was the English meal they were going, over with, then said I, is the miles so leant in England, that they must send over their corn to Ireland to grind it, the comical cunning fellows persuaded me it was so; then I went down to a little house below the water hard by the shore back of the beat, and laid me down on their leather-lack, where I slept myself almost to death with hunger. And dear Tom, to tell you plainly, when I awak’d, I did not know where I was, but thought I was dead and buried, for I found netting all around me, but wooden walls and timber above.
Tom. And how did you come to yourself to know where you was at last? Teag. By the law dear shoy, I scratch’d my head in a hundred parts, and then sat me down to think upon it, so I minded it was my wife that was dead and not me, and that I was alive in the young best-boat, with the fellows
