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19 goes 2 miles off ? No, no,' says his master l'll hold no more bets with you, but I'll give you a shilling if you do it. Done says Tom, it will cost you no more.' So away he runs thro' the fields, until he came before the butcher, just at the place where he stole the calf from him the day before; and here he lies behind the hedge end as the butcher came past, he put his hand on his mouth, and cried Ba, haw, like a calf; The butcher hearing this swore to himself that there was the calf he had lost the day before! Down he comes and throws the calf on the ground, gets in thro' the hedge in all haste, thinking he had no more to do but to take it up; but as he came in at one part of the hedge Tom jumps out at another, and gets the calf on his back; he then gets in over the hedge on the other side, and thro' the fields he came safely home, with the calf on his back; while the poor butcher spent his time and labour in vain, running from hedge to hedge, end hole to hole, seeking what was tot there to be found. So the butcher returned to his horse again, and feeding his other calf gone, he concluded it to be done by some invisible spirit about that spot of group and so went home