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 THE COMICAL TRANSACTIONS

LOTHIAN TOM.

PART I. THIS Thomas Black, vulgarly called Lothian Tom, after his native county was born four miles from Edinburgh His father being a very wealthy fanner gave him good education, which he was very auk ward in receiving, being a very wild, cross, and mischievous boy.

1. When he was about ten years of age he was almost killed by the stroke of a horse’s foot, which his father had, wh had a trick of kicking at every person that came in behind him ; but when Ton was got heal of the dreadful wound whereof many thought he would have died, to be even with the horse, he get a clog, or piece of a tree, full of wooden pins, such as shoe-makers use to soften their leather upon, and with a rope he tied it to the couple-bauk in the stable, directly opposite to the horse’s tail ; then gets u