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 flung them, and when he took his leave of his hoſteſs, it was at ſuch a time when ſhe was buſy ſetting bread into the oven, ſo that he was ſure ſhe could not look after him. So he goes and wraps the turkeys in his coat and away he runs; but finding his two turkey's heavy, he ſees a man that ſold tobacco up and down the country, at the foot of a hill, when he alighted to lead his horſe down the hill, at the bottom of which he falls down, and lies crying as if he had broke me of his legs and makes to the man a moſt piteous lamentation; that he was ſix or ſeven miles from any town, there being no houſe near, and that he was like to periſh for want of sucbourſuccour [sic]. The man aſk'd, Where he dwelt? he ſaid with a knight, to whom Tom did live as a jeſter. The man knowing the knight, and thinking Tom's leg had really been broken with much ado lifted him upon the horſe. When Tom was mounted, he prayed the man to give him his maſter's turkey's, Tom made the horſe to gallop away, crying out, I ſhall be killed! I ſhall be killed! O my leg! what ſhall I do! O my leg! The man ſeeing him gone ſtood in amaze, and knew not what to think; nevertheleſs, he durft not leave his turkeys behind him, for fear of diſpleaſing the knight, but carried them lugging along fretting and ſwearing in his bouts, till he came to the