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away, and when he saw them riding after him, crying to stop and come back again, he ran the faster, until he could run no more, but fell down on the road, and prayed them to let him go, for, it he was taken back, he was sure to be hanged: and would not be persuaded that Tom was alive, until they forced him back, and he saw him. But he would be Tom's teacher no longer; so Tom's father had to seek another master for him.

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P A R T I I.

THERE was a young woman servant to Tom's father, whom Tom had offended by some of his tricks, and she, to be up with Tom again, one night spread a handful of short nettles in his bed, between the sheets which stung his legs and thighs so much, that he was obliged to quit his bed for some part of the night; for such he resolved to be revenged, whenever a proper opportunity offered. It happened in a few days after, that she was invited to a wedding, where the dancing & diversion induced her to stay all night; and on coming home on the morning, she fell a-washing some clothes. But being