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 18 one part of the hedge, Tom jumps out t another, and gets the calf on his back, while the poor butcher ſpent his time and la. our in vain, running from hedge te hedge, nd hole to hole, ſeeking what was not there o be found. So the butcher returned to his horſe again, and finding his other calf gone, ne concluded it to be done by ſome inviſible pirit about that ſpot of ground; and ſo went home and raiſed a bad report on the devil ſaying, he was turned a highwayman, and had taken two calves from him So Tom waſhing the white face off the calf; his maſ- ter ſent the butcher word to come and buy a- brother calf; which he accordingly did a few days after, and I'on ſold him the ſame calf the time: then told him the whole affair as it was acted, giving him his money again. So the butcher got but ſun for his trouble. PART V. 1. There was an old rich blind woman, who lived hard by, that had a young girl, her only daughter, and ſhe fell deep in love with Tom, and Tom fell as deep in love with the money, but not with the maid. - The old woman beſtowed a waſt of preſents on Tom, and monnted hire like a gentleman ; but ſtill he put off the marriage from time