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Polly got a horse, and came to Newcastle
in search of him, went thro' all the doc-
tors' shops, asking, if there came a young
man there, about two weeks ago, with a
broken --- to mend? Some laughed at
her, others were like to kick her out of
doors; so they had to return, without
getting any further intelligence of him.
Now, after Tom's return to Scotland,
he got a wife, and took a little farm near
Dalkeith, and became a very douse man,
for many years, following his old business
the couping horses and cows, & feeding
veals for slaughter, and the like. He
went one day to a fair and bought a fine
cow from an old woman; but Tom judg-
ed, from the lowness of the price, that
the cow had certainly some very great
faults. Tom gives the Wife the other
hearty bicker of ale, then says he, Gude-
wife the money is yours and the cow is
mine, ye maun tell me ony wee faults it
has. Indeed says the goodwife, she has na
a faut but ane, and if she wanted it, I
wad never a parted wi' her. And what's
that gudewife, said he. Indeed said she,
the filthy daft beast sucks ay hersel. But
says Tom, if that be all, I'll soon cure
her of that. O! can ye do't, said she if I
had kent what wad a don't I wadna sold
her. A well says Tom, I'll tell you what
