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4 Q. How near related is your aunty's good-brother to you?

A. No nearer than my own father.

Q. How many holes are in a hen's doup?

A. Two.

Q. How prove you that?

A. There is one for the dung, and another for the egg.

Q. Who is the best for catching of rogues?

A. None so fit as a rogue himself.

Q. Where was the usefulest fair in Scotland kept?

A. At Millguy.

Q. What sort of commodities were sold there?

A. Nothing but ale and ill wicked wives.

Q. How was it abolished?

A. Because those who went to it once would go to it no more.

Q. For what reason?

A. Because there was no money to be got for them, but fair barter, wife for wife, and he who put away a wife for one fault, got a wife with two as bad.

Q. What was the reason that in those days, a man could put away his wife for pissing the bed, and not for shg it?

A. Because he could shute it away with his foot and ly down.

Q. What is the reason now a-days, that men court, cast, marry, and re-marry so many wives, and keep only but one in public at last?