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 A. It is said the dogs have three accusations against the chapmen, handed down from father to son, or from one generation of dogs to another: The first is as old as Aesop, the great wit of Babylon the dog having a law suit against the cat, gained the plea, and coming trudging home with the decreet below his tail, a wicked chapman throwing his elwan at him, he let it fa' and so lost his previleges. The second is because in old times the chapmen used to buy dogs and kill them for their skins. The third when a chapman was quartered in a 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 the 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 lie down.

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

Q. What creature resembles most, a long, lean, ill-lookiuglooking [sic] 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 the brown leather.

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

A. The hart and the hind met at one certain day in the year; the broad goose lays