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 13 mosoa’s marc at the back of a dyke, a- mongst the bones of an hundred dead horse ? A. Because they are made of wood. Q. Which are the two things not to be spared, and not to he abused ? A. A soldier’s coat and a hired horse.

The end of John Falkirk's Carriches.

AN old gentleman and his two sons being in a company, his eldest son son sitting next to him, spoke a word which highly displeased his father, for which his father gave him a hearty blow on the side of the head. 'A well, said he I will not lift my hand to strike, my pa- rent, but he gives his other brother, that sat by him, a blow on the ear, saying, give that about by way of a drink till it comes to my father again.

I A sailor travelling between Edinburgh and Linlithgow, which is 12 long com- puted miles ; end as he was setting but in the morninig about eight o’clock, he