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Polly got a horse, and came to Newcastle in search of him, went thro' all the doctors' shops, asking, if there came a young man there, about two weeks ago, with a broken -- to mend? Some laughed at her, others were like to kick her out of doors; so they had to return, without getting any further intelligence of him. Now, after Tom's return to Scotland, he got a wife, and took a little farm near Dalkeith, and became a very douse man, for many years, following his old business the couping horses and cows, and feeding veals for slaughter, and the like. He went one day to a fair and bought a fine cow from an old woman; but Tom judged, from the lowness of the price, that the cow had certainly some very great faults, Tom gives the Wife the other hearty bicker of ale, then says he Gudewife, the money is yours, and the cow is mine. ye maun tell me ony wee faults it has, Indeed says the goodwife, she has na a faut but ane, and if she wanted it, I wad never a parted wi' her. And what's that goodwife, said he. Indeed said she, the filthy daft beast sucks ay hersel'. But says Tom, if that be all, I'll soon cure her of that. O! can ye do't, said she if I had kent what was a don't I wadna sold her. A-well says Tom, I'll tell you what