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on feeling the hot water, he kicked and struggled so much in the pot, that his mother thought that the pudding was be- witched, and, instantly pulling it out of                    the pot, she threw it to the door. A poor tinker, who was passing by, lifted up the pudding, and, putting it into his bud- get, he then walked off. As Tom had now got his mouth cleared of the batter, he then began to cry aloud, which so                    frightened the tinker, that he flung down the pudding, and ran away. The pud- ding being broke-to pieces by the fall, Tom crept out covered over with the batter, and with difficulty walked home. His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woful state, put him into a tea-cup, and soon washed off the batter; after which she kissed him, and laid him in bed. Soon after the adventure of the pud- ding, Tom's mother went to milk her cow in the meadow, and she took him a-                    long with her. As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistle with a piece of fine thread. The cow soon observed the oak- leaf hat, and, liking the appearanee of it,