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One day Tom was in the field helping his father.

"Let me drive the horse home," said Tom "You drive the horse!" said his
father.

"How could you hold the reins?"

"I could stand in the horse's ear and tell him which way to go," said
Tom.

So his father put him in the horse's ear, and he drove safely home.

"Mother! mother!" cried Tom.

But when Tom's mother came out, she could see no one.

She began to be afraid.

"Where are you, Tom?" she cried.

"Here I am in the horse's ear. Please take me down," said Tom.

His mother lifted him gently down, kissed him, and gave him a blackberry
for his supper.

Tom's father made him a whip out of a straw.