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 your buſineſs. She replied, I thank your worſhip, you are an honeſt good man, and have done me juſtice. The little ſeaman the mean while wrong his hands and bitterly cried out, I am ruined, for it is every penny I had in the world. Well, quoth Tom, haſte after her, and take it from her again. According to Tom's order he runs after her, and when he came after her, he ſaid, I muſt, and will have my purſe again: Then ſhe fell about his ears and cuſt him: nay, this did not ſatisfy her, but the dragged him back again to Tom, who ſat as juſtice, and told him, that the fellow followed her for the purſe, which he in juſtice give her. Well, ſaid Tom, and has he got it? No, ſaid he, I think not, before he ſhould take it from me, I'd tear out both his eyes. Let me ſee it again, ſays Tom: She gives it to him. is all the money, in it? quoth he. Yes, Sir, ſaid ſhe, 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 troubled with this complaint. Here, Mr. Conſtable, give her an hundred laſhes at the town's whipping-poſt: which was accordingly done, and Tom was applauded for his juſt proceedings.