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COMICAL TRANSACTIONS

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LOTHIAN TOM.

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P A R T 1. T THIS Thomas Black, vulgarly called Lothian Tom, after his native county, was born four miles from Edinburgh. His father being a very wealthy farmer, gave him good education, which he was very awkward in receiving, being a very wild, cross, and mischievous boy.

1. When he was about ten years of age, he was almost killed by the stroke of a horse's foot, which his father had, who had a trick of kicking at every person that came in behind him; but when Tom was got heal of the dreadful wound whereof many thought he would have died, ta be even with the horse, he gets a clod, or piece of a tree, full of wooden pins, ſuch as ſhoe-makers use to foften their leather upon, and with a rope he tied it to the couple-bauk in the ſtable, directly oppofite to the horſe's tail; then gets up on the bauk, and gives it a ſwing