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had a don't, ye wadna gotten her.'-- 'A-well,' ſays Tom, I'll tell you what to do: Tak the cow's price, I gave you juſt now, and tye it hard and faſt in your napkin, and give it to me thro' beneath the cow's wame, and I'll give you the napkin again over the cow's back, and I'll lay my life for it, that ſhe'll never ſuck herſel in my aught, 'I wat well,' ſaid ſhe, “I'ſe do that, an' there ſhou'd be witchcraft in't, so Tom no ſooner got it thro' below the cow's wame, than he looſes out the money and puts it in his pocket, and gave the wife again her napkin over the cow's back, accordingly as he told her, ſaying 'Now, wife, you have your cow, and I my money, and ſhe'll never ſuck herſel in my aught, as I told you, 'O doie!' cried the wife, 'is that your cure? ye've cheated me, ye've cheated me?'

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