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THE COMICAL AND WITTY JOKES OF JOHN FALKIRK.

AN old gentleman and his two fons, being in company his eldtfl fon fitting next him fpoke a word which highly difpleafed his father : for which his father gave him a hearty blow on the fide of the head. A well faid he, I will not, lift my hand to ftrike my parents but he gives his other brother that fat by him a blow on the ear, faving give that about by the way of a drink: till it comes to my father again.

A Sailor being traveling between Ed- inburgh and Linlithgow, which is twelve long computed miles : and as he was fetting out in the morning about