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 OF TOM TRAM. 19 purſe, which he in juſtice gave her. Well, ſaid Tom, and has he got it? No, ſaid ſhe, I think not, before he ſhould take it from me, I'd rear out both his eyes. Let me ſee it again, ſays Ton: She gives it to him. Is all the money in it ? quoth he. Yes, Sir, ſaid the, every penny. Why then, ſaid he, here little whipper-ſnapper, take your purſe again; and as for you, Mrs. Impudence, had you defended your honeſty as well as you did the money, I never had been trou- bled with this complaint. Here, Mr. Con- table, give her an hundred laſhes at the town's whipping-poſt: which was accord- ingly done, and Tom was applauded for his. juſt proceedings.

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SEVERAL

MERRY TALES.

TALE I Of a Scholar and a Tapſter on a Winter nights.

THE tapſter ſaid, Sir, will you go to bed. No, quoth the ſcholar, there are thieves abroad, and would not willingly be taken napping. So the tapſter left him, and be-