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 ( 3 ) on the bank, and gives it a swing back, so that the pikes in the end of it, came full drive against the horse’s arse, which made him to fling: and the more he flung and struck at it, it rebounded back again and struck him. The battle lasted with great fury, for a long time, which was good diversion to Tom, until his father, hearing some disturbance in the stable, came in to know the matter, and was sur- prised when he saw the poor horse tan- ning his own hide, with his legs all cut and bloody ; he cut the rope, and the bat- tle was ended. But the poor horse would never kick at any that came behind him afterwards, but always ran from it.

2. It happened one day that Tom went a-fishing, and brought home a few small fish, which his grandmother’s cat snapt up in the dark : so Tom, to have justice of the cat for so doing, catches her, and puts her into a little tub, or cog, then sets her a-drift into a mill-dam, ordering her to go a fishing for herself; then sets out two or three dogs upon her, when a most ter- rible sea fight ensued, as ever was seen on fresh water; or if any of the dogs assayed to board her, by setting in ever their nose, hadrons came flying to that quarter, to repulse him with her claws: