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COMICAL TRANSACTIONS

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LOTHIAN TOM.

"HOMAS BLACK, vulgarly c Lothian Tom, becauſe he reſide Mid. Lothian, was born four miles from inburgh. His father being a very wea farmer, gave him good education, whic! was very aukward in receiving, being a wild, croſs, miſchievous boy. 1. When he was about ten years of he was almoſt killed by the ſtroke of a ho foot, which his father had, who had at of kicking at every perſon that came bel him. But when Tom was got heal of 1 dreadful wound, whereof many thought would have died; to be even with the hd he gets a clog, or a piece of tree which full of wooden pins, ſuch a thing as il makers uſe to ſoften their leather upon ; with a rope he tied it to the couple bauk the ſtable, directly oppoſite to the horſes then gets up on the bauk, and gives it a ſu back ſo that the pikes in the end of it, c with full drive againſt the horſe's arſe, wl made him to ſung; and the more he