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So Tom goes to a butcher, and gets a
raw pudding, and fills it with blood and
water, and puts it within the waistband
of his breeches, then goes to school the
next clay, and as his master was sitting
with his back to the fire, Tom lights a
piece of paper, and sets his wig in a low,
which burnt for some time unperceived,
until the flames came fiizzing about his
ears; he first put out the flames by
tramping on the wig, and being informed
that Tom did it, flies to him in a rage,
ordering him to loose his breeches, but
Tom told him he was never so mad.----
Then he drew his knife, whips poor Tom
over his knee, and with a great struggle
cuts the waistband of his breeches; but
thro' pudding and all, so that the blood
gushed out, and Tom cried out Murder
Murder! Murder! and down he fell:
The poor Dominie ran out of the school
crying and wringing his hands. Word
flew about that he was sticked by the Do-
minie, which made the people come run-
ning from several parts of the country,
round about to see how it was: but upon
searching him, they found the empty
pudding, which soon discovered all the
fraud. Then two men had to get horses
and ride after the poor Dominie, who
had by this time got two or three miles
