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10 CHAP. III.

How Tom came to be a Brewer’s man; and how

how he came to kill a Giant, and at last was

Mr Hickathrift.

TOM’s fame being spread abroad both far and near, there was not a man durst give him an angry word for he was something fool-hardy, and did not care what he did unto them; so that all them who knew him would not in the least displease him. At length there was a brewer at Lynn, who wanted a good lusty man to carry his beer to the marsh, and to Wisbech; hearing of Tom, went to hire him, but Tom seemed coy, and would not be his man, until his mother and friends persuaded him, and his master intreated him; likewise promised him that he should have a new suit of clothes and every thing answerable from top to toe; besides he should eat and drink of the best. Tom at last yielded to be his man, and his