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 when ſhe made the beds, neglected to make Tom's, but would liave him to do it himſelf, well then ſays Tom, I have harder work to do, and I ſhall do that too, ſo next day when Tom was in the field at the plow, when he ſaw his maſter coming from the houſe towards him, he left the horſes and the plow ſtanding in the field, and goes away towards his maſter, who cried, what is wrong, or is any thing broke with you? No, no, ſays Tom, but I am going home to make my bed, it 'has not been made theſe two weeks, and juſt now it is a- bout the time the maid makes all the reft, ſo I'll go home and make mine too. No, no, firrah, go back to your plow, and I'll cauſe it be made every night for you; then ſays Tom, I'll plow two or three furrows more in the time. There was a butcher came to his maſter's and bought fine fat calf, ſo Tom laid it on the horſe's neck be- fore the butcher, and when he was gone, now ſays Tom, what will you hold maſter, but I'll ſteal that calf from the butcher before he goes two miles off? Why, fays his maſter, I'll hold a guinea you don't : Joue, ſays Tom ; in he goes, and gets a good ſhoe of pis maſter's, and runs another way a-croſs the fields, until he got before the butcher, near to the corner of he hedge, where there was an open and turning of the yay, here Tom darns himſelf behind the hedge, and hrows the ſhoe in the middle of the high way, then up omes the butcher riding and his calf before him; hey id he to himſelf, there's a good ſhoe, if I know how get on my calf again I would light for it, but what gniſies one without its neighbour, ſo off he goes and ts it ly : Tom then Dips out and takes up the ſhoe a- ain, and runs croſs the fields, until he got in be- re the butcher, at another open of the hedge, about ulf a mile diſtant, and there he throws out the ſhoe a- hin on the midſt of the way; then up comes the but- er, and feeing it, ſays to himſelf, now I ſhall have pair of good ſhoes for the lifting, and down he comes, y the calf on the ground, and tying his horſe to the dge, runs back, thinking to get the other ſhoe, in which time, Tom whips up the calf and ſhoe, and home he