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to do; take the price I give you just now
and tye it hard and fast in your napkin,
and give it to me, throngh beneath the
cow's wame, and I'll give you the napkin
again ower the cow's back, and i'll lay
my life for it, that she'll never suck her-
sel in my aught. I wat weel, said she, l'se
do that, an' there shou'd be witchcraft
in't. So Tom got it thro' below the cow's
wame, he takes out his money, and gave
the wife her napkin over the cow's back,
as he promised, saying, Now, wife, you
have your cow, and I my money, and she
will never suck herself in my aught, as I
told you, O dole! dole! cried the wife,
is that your cure? you've cheated me,
you've cheated me.
Tom being very scarce of money one
time when his rent was to pay, and tho'he
was well acquainted with the butchers in
Edinburgh, and tried several of them,
yet none of them would lend him as much,
he was known to be such a noted sharper.
So Tom contrived a clever trick, to give
them all the bite in general, who had thus
refused him. In he comes next day, (for
they had all heard of the fine calf he was
feeding,) and tells one of the butchers
who dealt with him, that he was going to
sell the fat calf he had at home. Well, said
