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 A. It is said the dogs have three accusations against the chapmen; handed down from father to son, or from one generation of dogs to another: The first is as old as Æsop the great wit of Babylon, 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 lote it fa', and so lost his great 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 lufe and rubbing her face, as many of such ladies do the brown leather of their wrinkled chasts.

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

A. The hart and the hind meet at one