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 bylon, the dog having a law-suit against the cat gained the plea, and coming trudging home with the decreet below his tail, a wicked chapman throwing his elwan at him, he let it fa' and so lost all his privileges thereby. The second is, because in old times the chapmen used to buy dogs and kill them for their skins. The third, when a chapman was quartered in a farmer's house, that night the dog lost his property the licking of the pot.

Q. What creature resembles most a drunken piper?

A. A cat when she sips milk; she always sings and so does a piper when he drinks good ale.

Q. What is the reason a dog runs twice round about before he ly 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 fac'd lady, for pride?

A. None so much as the cat, who is continually spitting in her luse and rubbing her face, as many of such ladies do the brown leather of their wrinkled chasts.

Q. Amongst what sorts of creatures will you observe most of a natural law?

A. The hart and the hind meet at one certain day in the year; the broad goose lays her first egg on Fasterns Even, old stile; the crows begin to build their nest the first of March, old stile; the swans observe matrimony, and if the female died the male dares not take up with another, or the rest will put him to death; all the birds in general, join in pairs, and keep so; but the dove resembles the adulterer, when the shoe one, turn old, he pays her away, and takes another; the locusts observe military order, and march