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[ 19 ] loan of money from them, but they would lead me none, and then I came next day beggar ways, and they were ſo generous as to give me twenty ſhillings a-piece; but ſaid the judge, were not you to give it back again? I never promiſed nor never intend it at all; my Lord, for what is given to the poor is given gratis, and I appeal to this court that whatever pence any of you has given to the poor, that you look out for it back again. Then Tom was freed at the bar, and the butcher's loſt and laughed at.

After the court, Tom and the lawyer had a hearty bottle; and at parting, the lawyer ſaid, Now mind Tom and ſend me the calf tomorrow,; O yes, ſaid Tom, but you muſt firſt ſend me out forty ſhillings for it. What ſays the lawyer, did not you promiſe me it, and a ſtone of better to make it ready with, for gaining your plea? But ſays Tom, did you not tell me the only point of the law was to deny; and you cannot prove it; and if you have learned me law, I have learned you roguery to your experience, ſo take this as a reward for helping me to cheat the butchers, and I think I'm even now with you both. This was all the lawyer got of ſum.

PART VI.

PADY's NEW CATECHISM.

Tom. OF-all opinions profeſſed in religion, tell me now Pady, of what profeſſion art thou? P dy Arra. dear ſhoy, my religion was too weighty a matter to carry out of my own country, I was afraid that you Engliſh Preſbyterians ſhould pick it away from me. Tom. What Pady, was your religion ſuch a load that you could not carry it along with you? P. Yes, that it was but I carried it al-