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 3 and ſtruck at it, it rebounded back again, and ſtruck him : the battle laſted with great fury for a long time which was good diver- ſion for Tom, until his father hearing ſome diſturbance in the ſtable came in to know the matter, and was ſurpriſed when he ſaw the poor horſe tannin his own hide, with his legs all cut and bloody! He cut the rope, and the battle was ended; but the poor horſe would never kick at any that came behind him af- terwards, but always ran from it. 2. It happened one day that Tom went a-fishing, and brought home a few ſmall fiſh, which his grandmother's cat ſnapt up in the dark: ſo Tom to have juſtice of the cat for ſo doing, catches her, and puts her into a lirtle tub or cog, then ſets her a drift into a mill cam, ordering her to go a fiſhing for herſelf; then ſets out two or three dogs upon her, when a moſt terrible ſea fight enſued, as ever was ſeen on freſh water! for if any of the dogs assayed to board her, by ſetting in over their noſe, badrons came flying to that quarter to repulſe his with her claws; then the veſſel was like to be overſet by the weight of herſelf, ſo that ſhe had to flee to the other, and finding the ſame there, from the ice to the middle, where the fat mewing, always turning herſelf about, combing their noſes with her foot. The ol