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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 certain day in the year ; the broad goose lays her first egg on Easterns Even old stile ; the crows begin to build their nests about the first of March, old stile; the swans observe matrimony, and if the fe- male die, the male dare not take up with another or the rest will put him to death ; all the birds in general join in pairs, and keeps so ; but the dove resembles the adul- terer, when the she one grows old, he pays her away, and takes another ; the locusts observe military order and march in bands, the frogs resembles Pipers and Pedlars, for the young ones ride the old to death.

Q. Who are the merriest and heartiest people in the world?

A. The Sailors ; for they’ll he singing, cursing and damning one another, when the waves, their graves, are going over their heads.

Q. Which are the disorderliest crea- tures in battle ?

A. Cows and dogs ; for they all fall on them that are neathmost.