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 6         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 clay, 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 fiizzing about his ears; he first put out the flames by         tramping 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 Do- minie, which made the people come run- ning from several parts of the country, round about to see how it was: but upon searching him, they found the empty pudding, which soon 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