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 Comical 'Tranfaclions of Lothian Tom. you muft all go home without it: Next day Tom got ten fummonfes, to anfwer at the inftance of the butchers, for felling his calf and not delivering it. Tom then goes to Edinburgh, gets the ableft lawyer in town for that purpofe, tells him the whole of what paft, from firft to laft. Then faid the law- yer, as they cannot prove a bargain, deny you the paying of the money again, and if you’ll give me the calf. I’ll bring you off; but remember, “ In law there is no point “ like that of denial.” The calf, fays Tom, you’ll not want the calf and a ftone of but- ter to make it ready with. Then the law- yer goes to the court, where Tom was cal- led upon: The lawyer anfwers firft, who afked the butchers, if they could tell the price of the calf or prove the bargain ? They anfwered. No; but he ordered us to fend out our lads, and we would agree about it. Agree about it. faid the Judges! Why do you come to fue for a bargain, and to agree a- bout it yet ? Ay, but faid they, we want twenty fhillings a piece from him of the money we gave him. Tom is called upon, then faid the Judges, ‘ Did you borrow ‘ twenty fhillings of any of thefe men?’ ‘Not ‘ I, my Lord, I came indeed afking the loan ‘ of money from them, but they would lend ‘ me none, and then I came next day beg- ‘ gar-wife, and they were fo generous as to ‘ give me twenty fhillings the piece.’ ‘ But,‘ faid the Judge, ‘ was not you to give it back