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 ( 7 ) then diſmounted and man, ſo that the poor cadger loft his eggs, and had the drums to pay for. Tom was always playing tricks to his grandmo- ther as he knew she was rich and would part with nothing to him; he lays wait one night and con- caal himſelf in a corner until all was at reſt, Tom riſes and takes the keys of a drawer and flips out about forty ſhilling and ſets off to Dalkeith on a Thurſday, where his gradmother's ſervant girl came that day, Tom was ſpending largely and the girl who knew that Tom had no money, come home and told his grandmother that Tom had taken away her money, this ſo enraged him, that he lashed her buttocks with his whip in ſo unmerciful a manner, that with the ſmart and ſhame together, ſhe had not the least inclination to ſleep for the remaining part of the day, Tom being grown up to the years and age of a man, thought himſelf more wiſer and flyer than his father, and there was ſeveral things about the house he like better than to work, ſo he turned to be a dealer among the brutes, a couper of horſes and cows, C. and even wet ware amongſt the breuera and brandy ſhops until he couped himſelf to the toom halter, and then his parents would ſupply him no more. He knew well his grandmother had plenty of money, but ſhe would give him none: but the old woman had a good black cow of her own, which Tom went to the fiulda one evening and catches, and takes her into an old waſte houſe, he kept her two or three days giving her meat and drink, when it was dark at night, and made the old woman believe ſomebody had ſtole the cow for their winter mart, which was grief enough to the old woman, for the lots of her deatly beloved co However, the employs Tom to go to the fair that was near by, and buy her another, gives him three pounds, which Tom scetta very thankfully, and