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 22. The Hiſtory of the four King's.

with all my heart. So home they went to her cottage, which food by the ſide of a grove on the bank of a pleaſant river. She no ſooner entered in at the door, than ſhe beheld the ſhelves furniſhed with abundance of earthen ware and glaſſes.-She had not lived long with her, before Tib had committed a fault, for which the old woman was reſolved to break every bone in her ſkin. To that end, ſhe put her into a fack, and having tied the mouth of the ſame, the went to the grove to cut a ſtick; but while ſhe was gone, Tib, with a pecknife, opened the ſack, and got out; and put the dog and cat into it, filling it up with pans, pipkins, &c. then dragging it to the door, that the old woman might not come in to miſs them, who on her return; thinking that Tib had rowled thither, began to lay on like a fury; when the dog howled, the cat mewed, and the pipkins cracked; while the old woman cries out, Ah! howl if you will, and be pox'd, for, before you come out of this ack, I'll thraſh your bones to chaff. Now Tib ſtood at a diſtance, laughing to