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A. It is a fart, which every perſon knows to be wind.

Q. What is the reaſon that young people are vain, giddy-headed and airy, and not ſo humble as the children of former years?

A. Becauſe they are brought up and educated after a more haughty ſtrain, by reading fables, plays, nivels and romances; goſpel-books, ſuch as the pſalm-book, proverbs, and catechiſms, are like old almanacks; nothing in vogue but fiddle, flute, Troy and Babyloniſh tunes; our plain Engliſh ſpeech corrupted with beauiſh cants, don't, won't, nen, and ken, a jargon worſe than the Yorkire dialect.

Q Why is ſwearing become ſo common amongſt Scotch people!

A. Becauſe ſo many lofty teachers come from the ſouth amongſt us, where ſwearing is practiſed in its true grammatical perfection, hot oaths, new ſtruck, with as bright a luſtre as a new quarter guinea, juſt come from the mint.

Q. How will you know the bones of a maſon's mare at the back of a dyke, amongſt the bones of a hundred dead horſes lying in the ſame place?

A. Becauſe it is made of wood,