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and in coming home in the morning, her mistress set her to wash some clothes. But she being fatigued with her night’s diverson, and for want of rest, tell fast asleep with her hands extended in the tub, and standing on her feet, with her belly leaning on the tub ; Tom perceiv- ing this, slips her petticoats and smock over her head letting the sun shine on her bare back-side, which faced the high- way. Several people passing by, while she continued in this posture, some of them were diverted, and others ashamed at the sight; but a poor cadger had the misfortune to be coming on the road at the time, and his horse taking fright at this unusual sight, threw off the creels, and broke the poor man’s eggs all to smash ; which so enraged him, that he lashed her buttocks with his whip, in such an unmerciful manner, that with the smart and shame together, she had not the least inclination to sleep for the re- maining part of the day.

6. Tom being grown up to the years and age of a man, thought himself wiser and more artful than his father; and there were several things about the house he liked better than to work; so he returned to be a dealer amongst the brutes, a cow-