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cultural speculation hay-makin' and harvist-rapin. Having 

 realised a fortune of 305. Paudeen determines to go back to 

 Ireland, buy it out and make himself " imperor " of it. Paudeen 

 gets down to Bristol, and there falls in, worse luck, with an 

 ould countryman of his, and tells him he wants a ship for 

 Ireland, and having adjourned to the "Blind Cow" they wor 

 like two sons of an Irish King in less than a minute. They 

 got discoorsing of Dublin and Naples and other furren parts, 

 and how like the Bay of Naples was to the Bay of Dublin ; 

 an' mixin' Naples an' wather and Dublin an' whisky, and 

 wather an' Dublin and Naples an' whisky, Dublin an' Naples, 

 Naples an' Dublin, and when Paudeen was in the middle of 

 his glory in walks the captain of the ship. " Any one here to 

 go aboord," says he. "Here, I am," says Paudeen. Well, 

 they brought Paudeen aboord the ship as dhrunk as a lord, 

 and threw him down in the cellar the hould they called it, and 

 the divils own hould it was wid sacks, pigs, praties, and other 

 passengers, an' there they left Paudeen in lavendher, like 

 Paddy Ward's pig. Paudeen was asleep the first week, and 

 on awaking a voice sings out 



" There's the Bay ! " 



That's enough for Paudeen, who scrambles upstairs till he 

 gets on the roof, the deck they call it, as fast as his legs would 

 carry him. 



" Land, ho! " says one of the chaps. 



" Where ? " says Paudeen. 



" There it is," says he. 



" For the love of glory, show me where," says Paudeen. 



" There, over the cat's-head," says he. 



Paudeen looked around, but the niver the cat's-head or dog's- 

 tail aither could Paudeen see ! But he gev another look, and 

 there was the Bay, sure enough, afore him. 



" Arrah, good luck to you ! " says Paudeen, " but you warm 

 the cockles of me heart. But what's come over the Hill of 

 Howth," says Paudeen. " It used to be a civil, paiceable soort 

 of a mountain, but now it's splutthering an' smokin away like a 



