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COMICAL AND WITTY JOKES

OF

JOHN FALKIRK.

An old gentleman and his two ſons, being in a company, his eldeſt ſon ſitting next to him, ſpoke a word which highly diſpleaſed his father; for which his father gave him a hearty blow on the ſide of the head. A well, ſaid he, I will not lift my hand to ſtrike my parents, but he gives his other brother, that ſat by him, a blow on the ear, ſaying, give that about by the way of a drink, till it comes to my father again.

A Sailor being travelling between Edinburgh and Linlithgow, which is twelve long computed miles; and as he was ſetting out in the morning about