"For Tom fell in and could not be
For some time after found,
For in the blood and batter he
Was lost and almost drown'd."
In cooking, the pudding behaved so curiously—
"As if the devil had been boil'd
Such was the mother's fear,"
that she at once gave it to a passing tinker, who put it in his "budget;" but hearing Tom cry out, threw both bag and pudding away; and Tom, by some unexplained means having got out, returned home, where his mother, when she went milking, tied him to a thistle to keep him safe. Whilst she was busy milking, the cow eat the thistle, and Tom with it; but his mother missed him, and calling for him was answered by Tom from the cow's interior. Naturally unaccustomed to such internal commotion, the cow took the earliest opportunity of getting rid of Tom by natural means, and
"Now all besmeared as he was