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 18 to time, and always waited ſomething, which the old woman gave the money to purchaſe for him, until he had got about thirty pounds of her money; and then the would delay the marriage no longer : Tom went and tools the old woman and girl aſide, and made his apology as follows: Dear mother, ſaid he, I am very willing to marry your daughter for I have a great love for her; but I am ſorry, very ſorry, to acquaint you, that I am no a fit match for her. What, ſays the old woman, there's not a ſitter match in the world for my daughter: I did not think you country could afford ſuch a clever youth what I hear you to be; you ſhall neither want gold nor ſilver, nor a good horſe ride upon; and when I die, you ſhall hav my all. O but mother, ſays l'om, that' not the matter at all, the ſtop is this, wne I was at home in Scotland, I got a ſtrok with a horſe's foot on the bottom of m belly, which has quite diſabled me below that I cannot perform a huſband's duty- Then the old woman clapt her hands, ar fell a crying, O! if it had been any impec ment but tha:--but that-but that wofu' tha which gold nor ſilver cannot purchaſe, ani yet the pooreſt people, that is, even comm: beggars have plenty of it - The old woman and her daughter fat crying, and wringii their hands, and Tom ſtood and wept,