errupting you, but what kind of place
is Salamanca?'

'Divil a bit did I ever see of it, Shorsha!'

'Then why did you say ye were sent there? Well, what kind of place is
Paris. Not that I care much about Paris.'

'Sorrow a bit did I ever see of either of them, Shorsha, for no one sent
me to either. When we says at home a person is going to Paris and
Salamanca, it manes that he is going abroad to study to be a saggart,
whether he goes to them places or not. No, I never saw either--bad luck
to them--I was shipped away from Cork up the straits to a place called
Leghorn, from which I was sent to --- to a religious house, where I was
to be instructed in saggarting till they had made me fit to cut a decent
figure in Ireland. We had a long and tedious voyage, Shorsha; not so
tedious, however, as it would have been had I been fool enough to lave
your pack of cards behind me, as the thaif, my brother Dennis, wanted to
persuade me to do, in older that he might play with them himself. With
the cards I managed to have many a nice game with the sailors, winning
from them ha'pennies and sixpences until the captain said that I was
ruining his men, and keeping them from their duty; and, being a heretic
and a Dutchman, swore that unless I gave over he would tie me up to the
mast and give me a round dozen. This threat obliged me to be more on my
guard, though I occasionally contrived to get a game at night, and to win
sixpences and ha'pennies.

'We reached Leghorn at last, and glad I was to leave the ship and the
master, who gave me a kick as I was getting over the side, bad luck to
the dirty heretic for kicking a son of the church, for I have always been
a true son of the church, Shorsha, and never quarrelled with it unless it
interfered with me in my playing at cards. I left Leghorn with certain
muleteers, with whom I played at cards at the baiting houses, and who
speedily won from me all the ha'pennies and sixpences I had won from the
sailors. I got my money's worth, however, for I learnt from the
muleteers all kind of quaint tricks upon the cards, which I knew nothing
of before; so I did not grudge them what they chated me of, and when we
parted we did so in kindness on both sides. On getting to --- I was
received into the religious house for Irishes. It was the Irish house,
Shorsha, into which I was taken, for I do not wish ye to suppose that I
was in the English religious house which there is in that city, in which
a