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So Tom goes to a butcher, and gets a raw pudding, and fills it with blood and water, and puts it within the waistband of his breeches, then goes to school the next day, and as his master was sitting with his back to the fire, Tom lights a piece of paper, and sets his wig in a low, which burnt for some time unperceived, until the flames came fizzing about his ears; he first put out the flames by trampling on the wig, and being informed that Tom did it, flies to him in a rage ordering him to loose his breeches, but Tom told him he was never so mad.-- Then he drew his knife, whips poor Tom over his knee, and with a great struggle cuts the waistband of his breeches; but thro' pudding and all, so that the blood gushed out, and Tom cried out, Murder Murder! Murder! and down he fell. The poor Dominie ran out of the school crying and wringing his hands. Word flew about that he was sticked by the Dominie, which made the people come running from several parts of the country, round about to see how it was: but upon searching him, they found the empty pudding, which discovered all the fraud. Then two men had to get horses and ride after the poor Dominie, who had by this time got two or three miles