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A. There is one for the dung and another for the egg.

Q. What is the best method of catch- ing rogues?

A. There is none so fit as a rogue himself.

Q. Where was the usefulest fair in                    Scotland kept?

Q. What sort of commodities were there?

A. Nothing but ale and wicked wives.

Q. How was it abolished?

A. Because those that went to it once would go to it no more.

Q. For what reason?

A. Because there was no money to be got for them, but fair barter, wife for wife; and he who put away a wife one fault, got another for her, with two as bad.

Q. What was the reason, that in those days a man could put away his wife for pissing the bed, but not for s--g it?

A. because he could shut it away with his foot and lie down.