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 Q. What is the great cause of the tailor's pride?

A. His making of peoples new clothes, of which every person young and old is proud of, then who can walk vainer than a tailor carrying home a gentleman's clothes.

Q. What is the cause of a young soldier's pride?

A. When he lists, he is free of his mother's correction, and the hard usage of a bad master, has liberty to curse, swear, whore, and everything, until convinced by four halberts and the drummer's whip, that he has now got a military and civil law above his head, and perhaps worse masters than ever.

Q. What is the cause of the poor dominie's pride?

A. As he is the teacher of the young and ignorant, he supposes no man knows what he knows, the boys call him master, there- he thinks himself a great man.

Q What sort of a song is it that is sung without a tongue, and its notes are understood by people of all nations?

A, It is a fart, which every person knows to be but wind.

Q. What is the reason that young people are vain, giddy-headed and airy, and not so humble as the children of former years?

A. Because they are brought up and educate after a more haugty strain, by reading