Page:John Falkirk's cariches (1).pdf/9

 9

Q. What is the reason the dogs are worse on chapmen than on any other strangers? A. It is said, the dogs have three accusations against the chapmen, which has been handed down from father to                      son, or from one generation of dogs to                       another: the first is as as old as Æsop, the great wit of Babylon.-- The dogs having a law-suit against the cats, they gained the plea; one of the dogs com- ing trudging home with the Decreet below his tail, a wicked chapman threw his elwan at him, and he let the Decreet fall, and so lost their great pivileges thereby. The second is, Because in old times the Chapman used to buy dogs and kill them for their skins. The third is, when a chapman was quartered in                      a farmer's house, that night the Dog lost his right of licking the pot.

Q. What creature resembles, most a drunken piper?

A. A Cat when she sips milk, she always sings, and so does a piper when he drinks good ale.