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 8 the misforture to be coming on the road at the time; and his horſe taking fright at this unuſual fight, threw off the creels and broke the poor man's eggs all to ſmaſh! which ſo enraged him, that he laſhed her buttocks with his whip, in ſuch an unmerciful manner, that with the fſmart and ſhame together. The had not the leaſt inclination to ſleep for the remaining part of that day. 2. Tom, being grown up to the years and age of a man, thought himſelf wiſer and flyer than his father; and there were ſeveral things about the houſe he liked better than to work; ſo he turned to be a dealer amongſt the brutes, a cowper of horſes and cows &c. and even wet ware, amongſt the brewers and brandy ſhops, until he cowped himſelf to the toom halter; and then his parents would ſupply him no more. He knew well his grandmother had plenty of money, but the would give him none; but the old woman had a good black cow of her own, which Tom went to the fields one evening, and catches, and takes her into an old waſte houſe which food at a diſtance from any other, and there he kept her two or three days, giving her meat and drink when it was dark at night, and made the old woman believe ſomebody had ſtolen the cow for their winter's mart, which was grief enough