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 22 Merry Tales and Comical Jeſts.

has learnt to ſtop three holes with one peg. The Scotchman replied, This is a pretty trick; how is it to be done Why, quoth the Welchman, put hur noſe in iny arſe, and then there will be three holes ſtopt with one peg.

An old woman in a country village had been ſuch a wonderful cracker oil nuts all her life-time, that at her death ſhe willed, that a bag of nuts migh be put in her coffin to lay her head upon, which was accordingly done and the old woman was often ſeen after her death fitting in the church-porch, cracking nuts. Now it happened that a couple of butchers had made a bargain to ſteal ſheep out of a paſture-ground adjoining to the church-yard: it was agreed upon between them, that one ſhould ſit in the church-porch and watch, while the other fetched a ſheep on his back to him. It is to be noted, that the ſexton: was a lame man, and uſed to bit carried on a man's back every winter morning to ring the five o'clock-bell Coming as uſual, the butcher waiting for his companion, thought he had been coming with a ſheep upon his back an