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 OF LOTHIAN TOM. 13 if it had been any impediment but that, but that, but that woſu' that! which gold nor ſilver cannot purchaſe, and yet the pooreſt people, that is, even common beggars have plenty of it. The old woman and her daughter fat crying and wringing their hands, and Tom ſtood and wept left he ſhould get no more money. O fays Polly, mother I'll wed with him neverthelefs, I love him ſo dearly! No, no, you fooliſh girl, would you throw yourſelf away, to marry a man and die a maid, you don't know the end of your creation, it is the enjoy- ment of a man in bed, that makes women to marry, which is a pleaſure like Paradiſe, and if you wed with this man, you'll live and die and never know it. Hoo, hoo, fays Tom, if I had got money, I needed not been this way till now: money, you fool, ſaid the old wo- man, there's not ſuch a thing to be got for money in all England; ay, fays Tom, there's a doctor in Newcaſtle, will make me as able as any other man for ten guineas ; ten guineas, ſaid ſhe, I'll give him fifty guineas if he will, but here is twelve, and go to him directly, and know firſt what he can do, and come again and wed my child, or the and I will die both for thy fake. Tom, having now got twelve guineas more of their money, got all things ready, and next morning early ſet out for Newcaſtle, but inſtead of going to Newcaſtle, he came to old Scotland, and left Polly and her mother to think upon him, then in about two weeks after, when he was not like to return, no, nor ſo much as a word from him, the old woman and Polly got a horſe, and came to Newcaſtle in ſearch of him, went thro' all the doctor's ſhops, aſking if there came a young man there about two weeks ago, with a broken cock to mend; ſome laughed at her, others were like to kick her out of doors, ſo they had to return without getting any farther intelligence of him. Now after Tom's return to Scotland, he got a wife and took a little farm near Dalkeith, and became a very douſe man for many days, following his old buſineſs th cowping of horſes and cows, the feeding of veals ſo ſlaughter and the like: He went one day to a fair an bought a fine cow from an old woman, but Tom judg e