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3 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 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 out 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 granmother'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 dying to that quarter to repulse him with her claws; then the veasel was like to be overset by the weight