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 ( 16 ) would feed no more in the dark while Tom was about the house.

' 10. There was a servant girl in the foresaid house, who always when she made the beds neglected to make Tom's, and would have him to do it himself— ' Well then,' says Tom, ‘ I have harder work to do, and I shall do that too.’— So next day, when Tom was in the field at the plow, when he saw his master coming from the house towards him, he left the horses and the plow standing in the field, and goes away towards his master, who cried, ' What is wrong ? or, is any thing broke with you ?’ ‘ No, no, says Tom, but I’m going home to make my bed, it has not been made these two weeks, and just now it is about the time the maid makes all the rest, so I’ll go home and make mine too.’No, no; sirrah,’ says his master, ‘go back to your plow, and I'll cause it to be made every night for you,’ ‘ Then,’ says Tom, 'I’ll plow two or three furrows in the time.

11. There was a butcher came to his master’s and bought a fine fat calf; so Tom laid it on the horse’s neck, before the butcher; and when he was gone, ‘Now,’ says Tom, ‘what will you hold,