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on the calf with chalk and water; then
brings it out and sells it to the butcher
which was good diversion to his master
and other servants to see the butcher but
his own calf again. No sooner was he
gone with it, but Tom says, Now, master
what will you hold but I'll steal it from
him again, ere he goes two miles off? No
no, says his master I'll hold no more bets
with you; but I'll give you a shilling if
you do it. Done, says Tom, it shall cost
you no more; and away he runs through
the fields, until he came before the but-
cher, hard by the place where he stole
the calf from him the day before; and
there he lies down behind the hedge, and
as the butcher came past, he put his hand
on his mouth, and cries baw, baw, like
a calf. The butcher hearing this, swears
to himself, that there was the calf he had.
lost the day before: down he comes, and
throws the calf on the ground, gets thro'
the hedge in all haste, thinking he had no
more to do but to take it up; but as he
came in at one part of the hedge, Ton
jumped out at another, and gets the calf
on his back; then goes over the hedge
on the other side, and thro' the fields he
came safely home, with the calf on his
back, while the poor butcher spent his
time and labour in vain, running from
