could not help taking notice, as they returned from church, that he must be a foreigner, by the ftrange twang of several words. "Yes," fays Mr. Derbyshire, "he is a foreigner; for "he was born in a country that lies

weft of Weft-Chefter: he will dine "with us, and then you will have an "opportunity of converfing with a "downright, honeft creature; that has just as much learning as is

proper to lead a country flock, but "not enough to mislead them. He ❝is gone to look after his own con"cerns for an hour, but he knows "dinner-time; in the interim, I will "give you the hiftory of this honest "Hibernian, who is the real, origi"nal inventor of that third motion of "the fun, which every man tells, of "a parfon belonging to his own counD 2

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"try. What countryman the face"tious Joe Miller makes him, I "can't fay; not having the honour of "reading that profound author fince "I was ten years of age: but, on this you may depend, that, in spite of "all attempts of ftory-tellers, to fteal "that honour from him, my honest "rector is the true original motion"maker. I have heard the ftory fo "often from my father, that I can "give it you verbatim.

"About forty years ago, my fa"ther being then a batchelor, from "which, as I aver my mother was an "honeft woman, you'll naturally infer "I was not born; and your inference "will prove juft and true. My fa"ther, who, for the reft of the ftory, "I fhall call the 'fquire, for fhortness, Sin

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him to me,) came down to spend "the Saturday afternoon, and Sunday, as you and I have done. On "his entrance into the church, he espied a strange uncouth figure, with "long hair, that looked as if it had "been well combed with his fingers, "mounted behind the reading-desk, "ready cocked, to give fire, the mo"ment the 'fquire appeared; and, the "instant he entered the door of his pew, the reverend strange figure began, "I will arife, and go to my "father." "Will you!" mutters the

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'fquire, then you must go in"to Ireland; for he can be no Eng"lishman, I'll be fworn." The 'fquire "was quite right in his conjecture; "but, for all that, Teague read the "prayers

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prayers with fuch becoming decen * cy, that he pleased him greatly; in "short, when he mounted the pul

pit, the 'fquire prepared himself to "liften with great attention to the 66 honest man.

After Teague, in the prologue « used to sermons, had prayed for the king, queen, and royal family, with "more fincerity than I am apt to "think feveral former bifhops ever "did, he proceeded to his text, and "gave out,

"The roth chapter of Joshua, "verse 13th.

"And the fun stood still.

"This he repeated twice; then,

"fetching up as much phlegm as he

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*thought would clear his lungs "for the whole job, he wiped

his mouth with a new handkerchief,

"that coft him a half thirteen in "Ireland, and which had never "peeped out of the paper it was "wrapped in, till the minute before " he mounted the reading-desk. As "it was his only handkerchief, what "fhift he made all the way he came, "fome of the laborious writers of folios

on probabilities and poffibilities may "perhaps make out, but I have no "guefs; so I shall say nothing about it.

"My beloved," fays this Teaguelander, 66 you must understand, "that before the flood, the fun had "but one motion; he used to rise in "the weft, and fet in the east, with"out having occafion to change his "course

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