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 14 PART IV.

1. Tom having now left his own native country, went into the county of Northum- erland, where he hired himſelf with an old ifer of a farmer; and there he continued. or ſeveral years, performing his duty in his rvice very well, though ſometimes playing roguiſh bite on thoſe about him ; but his tailer had a very naughty cuſtom, he would llow them no candle at night to ſee with ben at ſupper: Tom one night, ſets him- lf next to his maſter: and as they were all bout to fall on, Tom puts his ſpoon into he heart of the diſh where the crowdy was otteſt, and claps a ſpoonini into his maſters south: A pox on you for a rogue, cried is maſter, for my mouth is all burnt; A pox n you for a maſter, ſays Tom, for you keep houſe as dark as Purgatory, for I was going to my own mouth with that ſoup, and bifs'd the way, it being ſo dark; don't think maſter, that I am ſuch a big fool as to feed ou, while I have a mouth of my own.-- o from that night that Tom burnt his maſ- er's mouth with the hot crowdy, they always ot a candle to ſhew them light at ſupper, or his maſter would feed no more in the dark while Tom was preſent.