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Scots Piper’s Queries.

Q. What is the wisest behaviour of igorant persons ? A. To speak of nothing but what they now, and to give their opinion of nothing but what they understand. Q. What time is a scolding wife at be best?. A. When she is fast asleep. Q. What time is a scolding wife at the worst ? A. When she is that wicked as to tear the hair out of her head, when she can't get at her neighbours, and through perfect spite bites her tongue with her teeth —My hearty wish is, that all such wicked wipers may ever do so.