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 24 Comical Queſtions.

and they will ſoon be obliged to yield the Wager 16ſh.

Q.5. How to make two Calves and an Ape dance in the middle of a room before a company. When you propoſe to do this, ſome will think you have got the art of conjuration and are going to act the ſecond part of this wonderful Doctor Fauſtus; others will be curious to ſee what may be done in it: and the better to bring it about, will be deſtro to lay fome ſmall wager that you cannot what was promiſed. Now the wager bein laid; riſe from your ſeat, and whereas yo engaged to make two Calves and an Ape to dance round the room dance round it yourself; and the Calves of your legs, and the Nap of your neck, will dance with you, which are what was mentioned.

A B C L N R U C E.

NO name of perſon, or of place,

I by theſe letters mean;

Yet, if you them do rightly trace,

A word will then be ſeen.

Thus I conclude this little book,

Of Riddles, Joaks and Tales,

Which may create a cheerſul look,

When other methods fail.

FINIS.