THE
COMICAL TRICKS
OF
LOTHIAN TOM.
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This Thomas Black, vulgarly called Loth-
ian Tom, because he was of that country,
was born about four miles from Edinburgh,
his father being a wealthy farmer, gave
him a good education, which he was very
awkward in receiving, being a very wild
mischievous boy.
When he was about ten years of age,
he was almost killed by the stroke of a
horse's foot, which his father had, who
had a trick of kicking at every person
that came behind him. But when Tom
got heal of the dreadful wound, whereof
many thought he would have died, to be
even with the horse, he gets a clog, or
piece of tree which was full of wooden
pins, such a thing as the shoemakers use
to soften their leather on, and with a rope
he tied it to the couple-bank in the stable
directly opposite to the horse's tail, then
