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4 of herself, so she had to flee to the other; and finding the same there, from thence to the middle, where she sat mewing, always turning herself about, combing their noses with her foot. The old woman, being informed of the dangerous situation of her dearly beloved cat, came running with a long pole to beat off the dogs, and haul her ashore. What now, says Tom, if you be going to take part with my enemies, you shall have part of their reward: Then gives the old woman such a push, that she tumbled into the dam over head and cars, beside her beloved cat, and would undoubtedly have perished in the water, had not one of the people, who was there looking at the diversion, come to her relief 3. After this Tom was sent to tho school, to keep his hand out of an all turn And having an old cankered, crab. witted fellow for his dominie, they were always at variance; for if Tom bad got his whips, which be often deserved he was sure to be revenged upon his master again for it So Tom perceiving that his master had a close-stool in little closet within the School, where he went to ease himself, Tain gets penny-worth of gun-powder,