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back, ſo that the pikes in the end of it, came full drive againſt the horse's arſe, which made him to fling: and the more he flung and ſtruck at it, it rebounded back again and ſtruck him: The battle lasted with great fury, for a long time, which was good diverſion to Tom, until his father, hearing ſome diſturbance in the ſtable, came in to know the matter, and was ſurpriſed when he ſaw the poor horſe tanning his own hide, with his legs all cut and bloody, he cut the rope, and the battle was ended. But the poor horse would never kick at any that came behind him afterwards, but always ran from it.

2. It happened one day that Tom went a-fiſhing, and brought home a few small fiſh, which his grandmother's cat snapt up in the dark; so Tom, to have justice of the cat for so doing, catches her, and puts her into a little tub, or cog, then ſets her a-drift into a mill-dam, ordering her to go a-fiſhing for herself; then sets out two or three dogs upon her, when a most terrible sea-fight ensued, as ever was seen on fresh-water; for if any of the dogs assayed to board her, by setting in over their nose, badrons came flying to that quarter, to repulse him with her claws: