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 ( 17 ) the cow's belly, then he looſes out his money and puts it in his pocket, and gave the napkin over the cow's back to the wife, according as he told her, ſay- ing, there's your cow and I have my money, and I told you the ſhould never ſuck herſel in my aught. O dole, cry'd the wire, is that your cure, ye ha'e cheated me ye ha'e cheated me.

PART V.

TOM being very ſeant of money, at a time when his rent was to pay, and though he was well acquainted with the butchers in Edinburgh, he tried ſeveral of them, yet none of them would lend him as much as he was known to be ſuch a no- ted ſharper, Tom thinks with himſelf that he'll give them a bite, in general who had refuſed him. So in he comes next day, and all of them had heard that he had a fine fat calf feeding) comes to one o the butchers and tells him he was going to fell his fine fiat call he had at home. Well ſays the but- cher, and what will you have for it? Juſt five and thirty ſhillings, ſays Tom No, ſays the butcher, but by what I hear of it, I'll give you thirty Na, na, lays Tom, you muſt remember that is not the price of it but give me twenty fillings juſt now, and ſend out your lad to morrow, and we'll perhaps agree about it. Thus Tom went through in of them in one day, and got twenty filling from each of them and kept his ſpeech againſt the law for whatever they offered him for his call, told them to remember that was not to be the price of it, but give me twenty ſillings jut now, and ſend me your lad tomorrow morning and perhaps we'll agree about it was all that failed. So home he comes with his ten pounds, and paid his rent, and next morning one of the but- chers ſent out his lad to Lothian Tom's for a call, and she was about a mile from the town, went to