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17 master, but I'll steal that calf from this. butcher before he goes two mills of it 'Why,' says his master, I'll hold a game ea you don't.'Done,says Tom. I. he goes, and gets a good shoe of his master's, and I rans another way a cross the fields, until he got before the butcher. near the corner of a hedge, where there was an open and turning of the way; here Tom darts himself behind the hedge, and throws the shoe in the middle of the high way; then up comes the butchers riding, and his calf behind him: Hay,' said he to himself, there's a good shoe, if I knew how to get on my calf again, I would light for it but what signifies one without its neighbour? So off he goes, and lets it ly Tom then slips out, and takes up the shoe again, and runs cross the fields, until he got in before the butcher, at another opens of the hedge about half a mile distant, and there he throws out the shoe-again. on the middle of the road: then up cames the butcher, and seeing it, says to himself Now, I shall have a pair of good shoes for the lifting, and down he comes, lays the calf on the ground, and tying his home to the hedge, runs back, thinking the other shoe, in which time, Tom whips