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 poor for their common, the rest he made pastures of and divided the most part into tillage, to maintain him and his mother, Jane Hickathrift.

Tom's fame was spread both far and near through the country; and it was no longer Tom, but Mr. Hickathrift; so that he was now the chiefest man among them; for the people feared Tom's anger as much as they did the giant before. Tom kept men and maid servants, and lived most bravely; he made a park to keep deer in; near to his house he built a church and gave it the name of St. James's church, because he killed the giant on that day, which is so called to this hour; He did many more good deeds, and became a public benefactor to all persons that lived near him.

TOM having got so much money