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 22 and tye it hard and faſt in your napkin an give it to me through beneath the cow's wame and I'll give you the napkin again over thi cow's back, and I'll lay my life for it, the ſhe'll never fuck herſel in my aught. I wa well, ſaid the, l' ſe do that an' there ſhoul be witchcraft in't. So Tom no ſooner got through below the cow's wame, than he loo es out his money and puts it in his own poch et, and gave the wife again her napkin ove the cow's back, accordingly as he told he ſaying, Now Wife you have your cow and my money and ſhe'll never ſuck herſelf in nt aught, as I told you. O dole'! cried the wit is that your cure? Ye've cheated me, ye! cheated me.

PART VI. 1. Tom being very ſcarce of money of time when bis rent was to pay, and thoug he was well acquainted with the butcher in Edinburgh, and tried ſeveral of them, y none of them would lend him as much, was known to be ſuch a noted ſharper : ſo thinks with himſelf that he'll give them : a bite in general, who had refuſed him. in he comes next day, and all of them h: hears of a fine fat calf he had freeing) a tells one of the butchers he was going to the tat calf he had at home. Well, ſaid