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into the house, Tom’s mother, standing at the door, asked the master how he did. and where he was going with that fine coffin ? He did not know well what to say, being so surprised to see her alive; but at last be told her, her son brought in the measure the day before, and had got a guinea and a half from him, which he said was to buy some other necessaries for the funeral. O the rogue ! said she, has he played me that? So the wright got his guinea and a half, and so much for his trouble, and had to take back his coffin with him again.

8. Tom being now short of money again, began to think how he could raise a fresh supply; so he went to the port amongst the shearers, and there he hired about thirty of them, and agreed to give them a whole week’s shearing at tenpence a-day, which was two pence higher than any had got that year: this made the poor shearers think he was an honest, generous, and genteel master as ever they got, for he took them all into an ale-house, and gave them a hearty breakfast, till they; could eat no more. Now, says he, when there is so many of you together, perhaps from different parts, and unacquainted. with one another, I do not know but