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 ( 10 ) one another, I do not know, but there may ſome of you be honeſt men, and ſome of you rogues, and you are all to lye in one barn together, any of you who his got money, you'll be ſafeſt to give it to me, and I'll mark it down in my book with your names, and what I receive from each of you, you ſhall have it again on Saturdny night when you get your wages, O very well good man, take mine, take mine, every one cryed faster than another : ſome gave him five, ſix, ſeven, and eight ſhillings, even all they had earned through the whole harvest, which mounted to near seven pounds Sterling, having got all the money, he goes out with them till about three miles out of the town, and coming to a great field of corn though ſomething green, yet being convenient for his purpoſe, as it lay at a conſiderable diſtance from any houſe or perſon, ſo be made them begin there, telling them he was going to order dinner for them and ſend his own ſervants to join them: away he goes with all the ſpeed he could, but takes another road into the town, left they ſhould follow and catch him. Now when the people to when the corn belonged ſaw ſuch a band in the field, they could not under- ſand the meaning of it, but the good man to whom the corn belonged, went off crying always as he run to ſtop, but they would not, until he began to bent them, and they at him, he being in a great paſſion, as the corn was pot fully ripe ; at laſt, by force of ar- gument, and other people coming up to the poor Miesrers, they were convinced they had gotten the bize, which made them to go away lamenting their misfortune. In two or three days thereafter as Tom was go- ing down the Canongate, he meets one of his ſhear- cri who knew him, kept faſt by him, demanding - money and ſatisfaion for the reſt: whiſt, whiſt, , and you'll get yours and ſomething elſe. . co Tom takes him into the jail, and calls