Chap-books of the eighteenth century . He sat the candle for to lightUpon the pudding bowl,Of which there is unto this day,A pretty Story told. • For Tom fell in and could not beFor some time after found,For in the blood and batter heWas lost and almost drownd. In cooking, the pudding behaved so curiously— As if the devil had been boildSuch was the mothers fear, that she at once gave it to a passing tinker, who put it in hisbudget; but hearing Tom cry out, threw both bag andpudding away; and Tom, by some unexplained means having p 2IO Chap-Books of the Eighteenth got out, returned ho
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . He sat the candle for to lightUpon the pudding bowl,Of which there is unto this day,A pretty Story told. • For Tom fell in and could not beFor some time after found,For in the blood and batter heWas lost and almost drownd. In cooking, the pudding behaved so curiously— As if the devil had been boildSuch was the mothers fear, that she at once gave it to a passing tinker, who put it in hisbudget; but hearing Tom cry out, threw both bag andpudding away; and Tom, by some unexplained means having p 2IO Chap-Books of the Eighteenth got out, returned home, where his mother, when she went milking,tied him to a thistle to keep him safe. Whilst she was busymilking, the cow eat the thistle, and Tom with it; but his
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