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6 the boys, if they would not loose their breeches willingly, he took his knife and cut them through the waistband behind : No Tom goes to a butcher, and gets a raw pudding, and fills it with blood and water, and puts it within the waist-band of his breeches, then goes to the school next day and, as the master was sitting, with his back towards the fire. Tom lights a piece of paper, and sets his wig in a low, which burnt for some time unperceived, until the flames came fizzing about his cars! He first put out the flames by trampling on the wig, and then flies at Tom in a rage, ordering him to loose his breeches, but Tom told him he was never so mad; then he took his knife, and whips poor Tom over knee, and with great kicking and struggling cuts the waist-band of his breeches thro' pudding and all, so that the blood gushed out, and Tom cried out Murder! Murder! and down he fell; the poor dominie ran out at the door crying & wringing his hands; word flew about that Tom was sticket by the Dominie, which made the people come running from several parts of the country round about, to see how it was; but on searching him, they found only the empty pudding, which discover