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 23           to do; take the price I give you just now and tye it hard and fast in your napkin, and give it to me, throngh beneath the cow's wame, and I'll give you the napkin again ower the cow's back, and i'll lay my life for it, that she'll never suck her- sel in my aught. I wat weel, said she, l'se           do that, an' there shou'd be witchcraft in't. So Tom got it thro' below the cow's           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 butchers 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. So 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 was            feeding,) and tells one of the butchers who dealt with him, that he was going to           sell the fat calf he had at home. Well, said