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home with the calf on his back, whilft the poor butcher fpent his time and labour in vain, running from hedge to hedge, and hole to hole, feeking what was not there to be found. So the butcher returned to his horfe again, and finding his other calf gone, he concluded it to be done by fome invifi- ble fpirit about that fpot of ground; and fo went home, and raifed a bad report on the devil, faying, “ He was turned a highway- man, and had taken two calves from him.” So Tom walking the white face of the fto- len calf, his mafter fent the butcher word, to come and buy another calf, which he ac- cordingly did a few days after, and Tom fold him the fame calf the third time; then told him the whole affair as it was acted, giving him his money again, fo the butcher got but fun for his trouble.

PARTY.V THERE was an old rich blind woman, who lived hard by, that had a young , her only daughter, and fhe fell deep in love with Tom, and Tom fell as deep in love with the money but not with the maid, the old woman bellowed a vaft of prefents on Tom, and mounted him like a gentleman, but ftill he put off the marriage from time to time, and always wanted fomething, which the old woman gave the money to purchafe