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cowper of horſes and cows, &c. and even wet ware amongſt the brewers and brandy ſhops, until he cowped himſelf to the toom halter: and then his parents would ſupply him no more. He knew well his grandmother had plenty of money, but ſhe would give him none, but the old woman had a good black cow of her own: So Tom went to the fields one evening, and catches and takes her into an old waſte houſe which ſtood at a diſtance from any other, and there he kept her two or three days, giving her meat and drink when it was dark at night, and made the old woman believe ſomebody had ſtolen the cow for their winter's mart, which was grief enough to the old woman, for the loſs of her dearly beloved cow. However, ſhe employs Tom to go to a fair that was near-by, and buy her another; gives him three Pounds, which Tom accepts of very thankfully, and promiſes to buy one as like the other as he pofſibly could get: Then he gets a piece of chalk, and brays it as ſmall as meal, and ſteeps it in a little water, and therewith rubs over the cow's face and back, which made her baith brucket and rigget: So Tom, in the morning, takes the cow to a public house within a little of the fair,