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 12 A It is a fart which every perfon knows to be wise. Q What is the reafon that young people are vain giddy headed and airy, and not fo humble as the children of former years ? A 8ecaufe they are brought up and educated in a more haughts ftrain, by fable plays novels and roman- ces, gofpel-books, fuch as the pfalm. book. proverbs, catechifm are like old almanaks; nothing in vogue but fiddle, , Troy and Babylonifh tunes ; our plain Englifh fpecch corrupted with beanif cants, don't, won't can't, fhan't nen and ken. a jargon worfse than the Yorkfhire dialect Q Why is fwearing become fo com- mon among Scots people? A Becaufe to many lofty teachers come from the fouth among us where fwearing is perfection in its true gramma- tical perfection hot oats new ftruck, with as bright a luftre as a new quarter guinea juft come from the mint. Q How will you know the bones of a mafon's mars at the back, of a dyke, amongft the bones of a hundred dead