This Horſe Tom kept above half a Year, and then rode him to a neighbouring Fair, and ſold him.
At his Return, being queſtioned by Thwackum, what he had done with the Money for which the Horſe was ſold, he frankly declared he would not tell him.
Oho! ſays Thwackum, you will not! then I will have it out of your Br—h; that being the Place to which he always applied for Information, on every doubtful Occaſion.
Tom was now mounted on the Back of a Footman, and every Thing prepared for Execution, when Mr. Allworthy entering the Room, gave the Criminal a Reprieve, and took him with him into another Apartment; where Mr. Allworthy being only preſent with Tom, he put the ſame Queſtion to him which Thwackum had before aſked him.
Tom anſwered, He could in Duty refuſe him nothing; but as for that tyrannical Raſcal, he would never make him any other Anſwer than with a Cudgel, withwhich
