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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt:...to the tail, all the rest of the body is free; and when all the curcash but the tail goes along, the tail must follow of course. Besides, honey, all the world knows the strength of every human creature lies in the tail.--Arra! he wanted to bodder me with his dam English tricks! but the devil burn me, if honest Paddy would not have left twenty places, if he had been in them all at once, sooner than be put out the way of his country. Guh You were certainly in the right! I commend your spirit.' But, pray, how have you lived since you came to London? Irish. Lived, honey! As a great many lives in London: nobody knows how--by my shoul! I have only picked up five thirteens for these four weeks and a half! Gul. A special raw-boned fellow this! He will do for America--I must send-word to my nephew Trappum--Would you like to go abroad, friend? Irish. Ay, my dear honey; any way in England, or in Scotland; but I do not like, d'ye see, to live out of my native kingdom. Gul. Oh! it's only a very short voyage; a little round the Land's End. A gentleman hath taken a ery considerable farm in the west; and if I could prevail on him to hire you, you would have the sole management of it. 'Twould be the making of you. You can write, I suppose i Irish. Yes, upon my conscience, that I can, very well I My mark, honey, that's all;--but that's nothing, my dear; I could get any body to write for me, if they did but know how. Gul. That's true. Well, I shall see the gentleman this evening, and have a little close talk with him about you. Irish. Upon my shoul, the most shivilest person, d'ye sec, that ever I met with since I was an Irishman.' Aside. Gul. Where do you lodge, friend? Irish. At the Harp and Spinning Wheel, in Farthing-Fields, Wapping; in a room of my own, that 1 hire at ni...