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9 his ell-wan at him, and he let the Decreet fall and so lost their great privileges thereby. The second is, because in old times the chapmen used to buy dogs and kill them for their skins. The third reason is, when a chapman was quar- tered at a farmer's house, that night the Dog lost his right of licking the po Q. What creature resembles most a drunken Piper? A. A Cat when she sips milk, for then she always sings, and so does a piper when he drinks good ale. Q. What is the reason a dog runs twice round before he lies down? A. Because he does not know the head of his bed from the foot of it. Q. What creature resembles most a long lean, ill-looking greasy-faced lady, for pride ? None so much as a cat, who is contin- ually spitting in her lufe and rubing her face, as many such ladies do the brown leather of their wrinkled chafts. Q. Amongst what sort of creatures will you observe most of a natural law, or instinctive knowledge ? A, The Hart and the Hind meet on one cer- tain day in the year; the Brood Goose, lays her first egg on Eastern's Even, old stile; the Crows