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 ( 8 ) promiſed to buy one as like the other as possible he could get : then he sets a Piece of chalk and brays it as ſmall as meal, and ſteeps it in a little water, and therewith tubs over the cow's face and back which made her both brocket and rigget; ſo Tom in the morning takes the cow to a public houſe, within a little of the fair, and there left her till the fair was over, and then drives her tome before him, and as ſoon as they came home the caw began to rout as ſhe uſed to do, which made the old woman to rejoice thinking it was her own block cow, but when the ſaw her white face, ſighed and said, " alas! thou ll never be like the kindly brute my black lady, and yet roots as like her as ony I ever did hear : but Tom ſays to himſelf, the mercy is you know not, in two or three days the old woman put forth her bra' rigget cow in the morning with the reſt of the nei heurs enttle, but it came on sore day of heavy rain, which washed away all the white from her face and back; ſo the old woman's black Indy came home at night and her rigget cow went way with the ſhower and was never heard of. But om's father having ſome ſuſpicion and looking narrowly into the cow's face found ſome of the chalk not waſhed away and then he gave poor Tom a hearty beating and ſent him away to leek his fortune with a skinful of fore bones.

PART II.

To being turned to his life confiders with himſelf how to raise little money, gets a long ſtring as near as he could gueſs to be the length of his mother, and into Edinburgh he goes, to a wright, who was aquainted with his father and mother, the wright sked him how he did? he an- ſwered him very ſoberly, for held loft good dutiful mother last night, and there's a meaſure of