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 farmer's house, that night the dog lost his property, the licking of the pot.

Q. What creature resembles most a drunken piper;

A. A cat when she sips milk; she always sings, and so does a piper when he drinks good ale.

Q. What is the reason a dog runs twice round about before he lies down

A. Because he does not know the head of his bed from the foot of it.

Q. What creature resembles most a long, lean, ill-looking, greasy fac'd lady for pride?

A. None so much as a cat, who is continually spitting in her lufe and rubbing her face, as many of such ladies do their brown leather.

Q. Amongst what sort of creatures will you observe most of a natural law?

A. The hare and the hind meet at one certain day in the year; the broad goose lays her first egg on Fastern's Even, old stile; the crows begin to build their nests the first of March, old stile; the swans observe matrimony and if the female die, the male dare not take up with another, or the