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to do; tak the price I gave you just now and tye it hard and fast in your napkin, and give it to me, through beneath the cow's wame, and I'll give you the napkin again ower the cows back, and I'll lay my life for it, that she'll never suck hersel in my aught. I wat weel said she, I'se do that, an' there shou'd be witchcraft in't. So Tom got it thro' below the cows wame, he takes out his money, and gave the wife her napkin over the cow's back, as he promised, saying, Now, wife, you have your cow, and I my money, and she will never suck herself in my aught, as I told you. O dole dole! cried the wife, is that your cure? you've cheated me, you've cheated me.

Tom being very scarce of money one time when his rent was to pay and tho' he was well acquainted with the butcher's in Edinburgh, and tried several of them, yet none of them would lend him as much he was known to be such a noted sharper. Só Tom contrived a clever trick, to give them all the bite in general, who had thus refused him: In he comes next day, (for they had all heard of the fine calf he wasfeeding.) and tells one of the butcher's who dealt with him that he was going to sell the fat calf he had at home. Well said