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 ( 12 ) om' and would have itim to make it himſelf, ellten. says Tom, I have harder work to do, aina, hall do that tuo So next day, when, Tom other field at the plooh, when he'l w his maſ- ter coming from the houſe towards him, he then is the horſes and the plough tiding in the field, and goes away towards his mater, who cried, what rong or is any thing broke? No no, says Tom, but I'm going home to make my bed, it has not been made thoſe two weekſ. and it is juſt now a- bout the time the mid takes all the reſt, ſo I ll go home and make mine too, No, no, firrah, go back to your plough, and I'll cauſe it to be made every night for you, then fays Tom, I'll plow two or three furrows more in the time. There was a butcher came to his maſter's, and bought a fine fat call lo Tom laid it on the hor- ſe's neck before the butcher, and when he was gone Tom ſays, now maſter, what will you hold but I'll ſteal that calf from the butcher, before he goes two miles of? Why, ſays his matter I'll hold you a guinea you don't, done ſays Tom, in he goes and get a good ſhoe of his maſter's, and rous of another way acroſs the fields until he got before the butcher net to a hedgs, where there was an open and turning of the way, there. Tom turns himſelf behind the bedge, and throws the thee in the middle of the highway then up comes the bucher riding, with his calf be- fore him ; then ſaid he to himself there's a good ſhoe if I knew how to get on my calf again, Would alight for it, but what ſignifies one without its neighbour? ſo off he goeſ and lets it lie? Com then flips out and takes the thine up again, and the fields until it got before the butcher at another part of the hedge, boot half mile diſ- tant, and there he throws the ſhoe out again on the midſt of the way; then up comes the butcher, and ſeeing it ſays to himſelf, now I ſhall have a pair