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The cook, who was an ill-natured fel- low, being in a terrable rage at Tom for frightening and scalding him with the furmenty, went straight to the king, and represented that Tom had jumped into the royal furmenty, and thrown it down out of mere mischief. The king was so                         enraged when he heard this, that he or- dered Tom to be seized and tried for high treason; and there being no person who dared to plead for him, he was condemn- ed to be beheaded immediately. On hearing this dreadful sentence pro- nounced, poor Tom fell a-trembling with fear, but, seeing no means of escape, and observing a miller close to him gaping with his great mouth, as country boobies do at a fair, he took a leap, and fairly jumped down his throat. This exploit was done with such activity, that not one person present saw it, and even the miller did not know the trick which Tom had played upon him. Now, as Tom had. disappeared, the court broke up, and the miller went home to his mill. When Tom heard the mill at work, he knew he was clear of the court, and therefore he began to tumble and roll