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 Q: How many sticks gangs to the bigging of a craw's nest?

A. None, for they are all carried.

Q. How many whites will a well made pudding-prick need?

A. If it be well made it needs no more.

Q Who was the father of Zebedee's children?

A. Who but himself.

Q. Where did Moses go when he was full fifteen years old?

A. Into his sixteenth.

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

A. No nearer than my own father.

Q. How many holes are there 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 rogues?

A. None so fit as a rogue himelfhimself [sic].

Q. Where was the usefulest fair in Scotland kept?A. At Mulguy

Q. What sort of commodities were there?