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gets on the bank, and gives it a swing, so that the pikes in the end of it, came with full drive against the horse's backside, which made him fling, and the more he flung and struck at it, it rebounded back and struck him again; the battle sted with great fury for a long time, le which was good fun for Tom, until his father hearing some noice, in the stable, came in to know the matter, and was surprised to see the poor animal tanning his own hide, with his legs all cut and bloody! he cut the rope and the battle was ended; but the poor horse would never afterwards kick at any thing that came behind him. It happened one day that Tom went a-fishing, and brought home a few small fish, which his grandmothers 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 coy, then sets her adrift in a small mill-dam, ordering her to go a fishing for herself; then sets two or three dogs upon her, and a most terrible sea fight ensued, as ever was seen on fresh water; for it any of the dogs, when attempting to board her, set up their noses, baudrins came flying that place, to repulse them with her claws; then the vessel was like to be