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 10 as never heard of. But Tom's father aving ſome ſuſpicion, and looking narrowly to the cow's face, found ſome of the chalk ot waſhed away, and then he gave poor Tom hearty beating, and ſent him away to eck his fortune with a ſkinful of fore ones,

PART III. 1. Tom being now turned to his own ſhifts, confiders with himſelf how to raiſe a little more money. He gets a long ſtring, as near s he could gueſs to be the length of his mother, and in to Edinburgh he goes, to a wright who was acquainted with his father and mother: the wright aſkad him how he did? he anſwered him, Very ſoberly; for he had loſt a good dutiful mother laſt night, and there was a meaſure for her coffin.- Ton went out, and ſtaid for ſome time, and then comes in again, and tells the wright he did not know what to do, for his father had ordered him to get money from a man whom the named, but he was that day gone out of town. The wright asked him now much be wanted ? to which he anſwered, A guinea and a half might do, or thirty ſhillings at the leaſt. So he gave him the guinea and a half; then Tom gave him ſtrict charges to be out on the morrow against eleven o'clock