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 of the rails for his staff; so they fell to work, the Tinker at Tom, and Tom at the Tinker, like unto two giants they laid the one on the other. The Tinker had on a leather coat, and at every blow Tom gave the Tinker, his coat cracked again, yet the Tinker did not give way to Tom an inch; But Tom gave the Tinker a blow on the side of the head, which felled the Tinker to the ground. Now, Tinker, where are you now, said Tom.

But the Tinker being a man of mettle, leaped up again, and gave Tom a blow which made him reel again, and followed his blows, and then took Tom on the other side which made his neck crack again. Tom flung down the weapon, and yielded the Tinker to be the best man, and took him home to his house where I shall leave Tom and the Tinker till they be recovered of their many wounds and bruises; which relation is more enlarged in, as you may read in the second part of Thomas Hickathrift.