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 draw it up with pullies; Tom seeing them not able to stir it, said, stand away, ye fools, then takes it up and sets it on one end, and lays it on the cart; Now, says he, see what a man can do. Merry is it true, said they. When they had done, as they came through the wood they met the wood-man, Tom asked him for a stick to make his mother a fire with. Aye, says the wood-man, take one that thou canst carry. Tom espyed a tree bigger than the one that was in the cart, and lays it on his shoulder, and goes home with it as fast as the cart and six horses could draw it. This was the second time that Tom's strength was known.

When Tom began to know that he had more strength than twenty men, he then began to be merry and very tractable, and would run, or jump, took great delight to be amongst