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money I need not been this way till now.
Money, you fool, said the old woman, there's
not such a thing to be got for money in all
England. Ay, says Tom, there's a doctor
in Newcastle, will make me as able as any
other man for ten guineas. Ten guineas,
said she, I'll give him fifty guineas
if he
will; but here is twelve, and go to him
directly, and see what he can do, and then
come again and wed my child, or she and
I will both die for thy sake. Tom having
now got twelve guineas more of their
money, got all things ready, and early next
morning set out for Newcastle, but instead
of going there he came to old Scotland,
and left Polly and her mother to think upon him.
In about two weeks thereafter,
when he was not like to return, nor so
much as any word from him, the old woman
and Polly got a horse, and came to Newcastle in search of him, went thro' all the
doctor's 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