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 ſays Tom, and you'll get yours and ſomething elſe be- fide. So Tom takes him into the jail, and calls for a bottle of ale and a dram, then takes the jailor aſide, as if he had been going to borrow the money from him ; and ſays to the jailor, this man here is a great thief, I and two others have been in ſearch of him theſe three days, and the other two men have the warrant with them, ſo if you keep the rogue here till I run and bring them, yon ſhall have a guinea in reward ; yes ſaid the jailor, go and I'll fix the rogue for you. Tom gets clear out, leaving the poor innocent fellow and the jailor ſtruggling together, and then ſets off for England directly. PART IV.

TOM having now left his own native country, wens ed himſelf with an old miler of a farmer; and here he continued for ſeveral years, performing his duty in hi ſervice very well, though ſometimes playing a roguin bite on thoſe about him : his maſter had a very naught cuſtom, that he would allow them no candle at night t ſee with when at ſupper: Tom one night ſets himſel next to his maſter, and as they were all about to fa on, Tom puts his ſpoon into the midſt of the diſh wher the crowdy was hotteſt, and claps a ſpoonful into h maſter's mouth; a pox on you for a rogue, cried h maſter; for my mouth is all burnt ; a pox on you for maſter, ſays Tom, for you keep a houſe as dark Purgatory, for I was going to my own south with th ſoup, and miſe'd the way it heing ſo dark; don't thin maſter, that I am ſuch a big fool as to feed you, whi I have a mouth of my own: So from that night th Tom burnt his maſter's mouth with the hot crowd they always got a candle to ſhew them light at ſupps for his maſter would feed no more in the dark while Tom was preſent. There was a ſervant girl in the houſe, who, alwa wh: