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[ 12 ] Tom, and would have him to make it himſelf; well then, ſays Tom, I have harder work to do, and I ſhall do that too. So next day, when Tom was in the field at the plough, when he ſaw his maſter comin from the houſe towards him he then left the horſes and the plough ſtanding in the field, and goes away towards his maſter, who tried, what is wrong or is any thing broke? No no, ſays Tom, but I'm going home to make my bed, it has not been made theſe two weeks, and it is juſt now about the time the maid makes all the reſt ſo I'll o home and make mine too,; No, no firrah go back to your plough, h, and I'll cauſe It to be made every night for you, then ſays Tom, I'll plough two or three furrows more in the time.

There was a butcher came to his maſters, and bought a fine fat calf, ſo Tom ſaid it on the horſe's neck before the butcher, and when he was one, Tom ſays, now maſter what will you held but ll ſteal that ca from the butcher before he gets two miles off? Why, ſays his maſter, I'll h ld guinea you don't, done ſays Tom, in he goes, and gets a g ſhoe his maſters, and runs of another way. acroſs the fields until he got before the hotel or near to a hedge, where there was an open and turning of th way there Tom-turns himſelf behind the hedge, and brows the ſhoe on the middle of the highway, then up comes the butcher, riding with his calf before him: then ſaid he to himſelf, thert's a good a ſhoe, if I knew how to get on my celf again, I would light for it, but what ſignifies one without its neighbour ſo off the goes, and lets it lie: Tom their ſlips out and takes the ſhoe up a bin, and runs oſs the fields until he got before the butcher at another part of the hedge, about half a mile diſtant, and there he throws the ſhoe out again on the of the way; then up comes the butcher, and ſeeing it, ſays to himſelf, now I ſhall have a pair of