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 ( 7 ) and ride after the poor Dominie, who had by this time got two or three miles away, and when he saw them coming after him, crying to stop and come back again, he ran the faster, until he could run no more, but fell over on the road, praying them to let him go, for, if he was taken back, he was sure to be hanged; and would not be persuaded Tom was alive, until they forced him back and he saw him, but he would be Tom’s teacher no longer; so Tom’s father had to seek another master for him.

PART II.

5. There was a young woman servant to Tom’s father, whom Tom had offended by some of his tricks, and she, to be up with Tom again, one night spread a hand- ful of short nettles in his bed, between the sheets, which stung his legs and thighs so much that he was obliged to quite his bed for some part of the night; for which he resolved to be revenged, whenever a proper opportunity offered. It hap- pened in a few days after, that she was invited to a wedding, where the dancing and diversion anduced her to stay all night: