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maid servants, and lived most bravely; he made a park to keep deer in; near to his house he built a church and gave it the name of St. James’s church, because he killed the giant on that day, which is so called to this hour: He did many more good deeds, and became a public benefactor to all persons that lived near him.
CHAP. IV
How Tom kept a pack of Hounds: His Kicking
a Foot-ball quite away : Also how he had like
to have been robbed by Four Thieves, and how
he Escaped.
TOM having got so much money
about him, and not being used to it;
could hardly tell how to dispose of it,
but yet he did use means to do it; for
he kept a pack of hounds, and men to
hunt with him; and who but Tom then.
So he took such delight in sports, that
