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13 of a maſon's mare at the back of a dyke, amengſt 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 be 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 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 parent, 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.

A ſailor travelling between Edinburgh and Linlithgow, which is i2 long computed iniles, and as he was ſetting out in the morning about eight o'clock, he ſaw a vain-like young ſpark