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 23 butcher, and what will you have for it? Juſt five and thirty Shillings, ſays Tom. No, ſays the butcher, by what I hear of it, I'll give you thirty. Na, na, ſays Tom, you muſt remem- ber that is not the price of it, but give me tewenty ſhillings juſt now, and ſend out your kad to-morrow, and we'll perhaps agree about it. Thus Tom went through ten of them in mone day, and got twenty ſhillings from each of them, and kept his ſpeech againſt the law, for whatever they offered him for his calf, he ze told them to remember that was not to be the price of it, but give me twenty ſhillings juſt now, and ſend out your lad on the morrow morning and perhaps we'll agree, was all that paſſed. So Tom came home with his ten pounds and paid his rent Early next mor- ning, one of the butchers ſent out his lad to Tom for the calf; and when he was about a mile cut of town, he went to an ale-houſe door, and calls for a bicker of ale, and as he was drinking it, up comes another butcher's lad on the fame errand; he being called by the firſt to come and drink, cauſed another bicker: Then up comes other two on the ſame errand: Again fix more, which made out the ten; and every one told he was going to Lothian Tom's for a calf, which made them think Tom had g together all the calves in the country. So they came to Tom's houſe, and every one called for his calf, and