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 cold winter night, and so let it stand till sun-rising next morning, then she'll become one of the peaceablest women that ever lay by a man's side.

Q. What time of the year is it that there are most holes open?

A. In harvest when there are stubbles.

Q. What time is a cow heaviest?

A. When the bull's on her back.

Q. Who was the goodman's muckle cow calf's mother

A. The muckle cow herself.

Q. What is the likeliest thing to a horse?

A. A Tailor on a mare.

Q. What is the hardest dinner that ever Tailor laid his teeth to?

A. His own goose, tho' ever so well boiled or roasted.

Q. How many toads' tails will it take to reach up to the moon?

A. One, if it be long enough.

Q. How many sticks gangs to the bigging of a craw's nest?

A. None, for they are all carried.

Q. How many whites will a well made pudding-prick need?

A. When well made it will need no more