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Q What creature refumbles moft a drunken piper? A A oat when fhe fips milk,fhe always ings fo does a piper when he drinks good ale Q What is the reafon a dog runs ronod bout bfore he ly down A Becaufe he dces not know the head of his bed from the foot of it Q What creatures refambles moft a long, lean, ill-looking, greafy fae'd lang or pride? A None fo much as the cat, who is continually fpirting in her lufe and run- ing her face, as many of fuch do The brown leather of their wrirk chafts. Q Amongft what fort of creatures will you obfefte moil of a natural law? A The hart and the hind meet at one , certain day in the year ; the bread, goofe lays her firft egg an Fafterns Even. old ftile; the begin to build their neft the firft of March old flife; the obferve matrimony, and if fhe fe- natle die the males dares not take up with another, or the reft will put him to death;all the birds in general jion pairs, and keep fo; but the dove re-