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 THE COMICAL TRANSACTIONS, OF LOTHIAN TOM. PART I.

This Thomas Black, vulgarly called Lothian Tom, after his native county, was horn four miles from Edinburgh. His father being a very wealthy farmer, gave him good Education, which he was very awkward in receiving, being a very wild, cross, and mischievous boy. 1. When he was about ten years of age, he was almost killed by the stroke of a horse'a foot, which his father had, who had a trick of kicking at every person that came behind him; but when Tom was get Heal of the dreadful wound whereof many thought lie would have died, to be even with the horse, he gets a clod, or piece of a tree, full of wooden pins, such as shoemakers use to soften their leather upon, and with a rope, he tied it to the couple- bank in the stable, directly opposite to the horse's tail; then gets up on the bauk, and gives it a swing back, so that the pikes