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 ( 24 ) had a don’t, ye wailna gotten her.'— ‘ A-well,’ says Toni, ' I’ll tell you what to do: Tak the cow's price, I gave you just now, and tye it hard and fast in you; napkin, and give it to me through beneath the cow’s wame, and I’ll give you the napkin again over the cow’s back, and I’ll lay my life for it, that she’ll never suck herself in my aught.' ' I wat well, said she, ‘ I'se do that, an' there shou't be witchcraft in’t. So Tom no sooner got in thro' below the cow’s wame, than he looses out the money and puts it it his pocket, and gave the wife again her napkin over the cow’s back, accordingly as he told her, saying, ' Now, wife, you have your cow, and I my money, and she’ll never suck herself in my aught, as I told you.' ‘O dole!’ cried the wife ‘is that your cure? Ye’ve cheated me ye’ve cheated me!

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