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 Q. What is the great cause of the taylor's pride?

A. His making of people's new clothes, of which every person young and old is proud of, then who can walk in a vainer shew than a taylor carrying home a gentleman's clothes.

Q. What is the cause of a young soldier's pride?

A. When he lists, he thinks he is free of his mother's correction, the hard usage of a bad master, has a liberty to curse, swear, whore, and do every thing; until he be convinced by four halberts and the drummer's whip, that he has now got both a military and civil law above his head, and perhaps worse masters than ever.

Q. What is the cause of the poor dominie's pride?

A. As he is the teacher of the young and ignorant, he supposes no man knows what he knows; the boys call him master, therefore he thinks himself a great man.

Q. What sort of a song is it, that is sung without a tongue, and its notes are understood by people of all nations?

A. It is a fart, which every person knows to be but wind.

Q. What is the reason that young people are vain, giddy-headed and airy, and not so humble as the children of former years?

A. Because they are brought up and educate after a more haughty strain, by reading