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Q. What is the reason the dogs are
worse on chapmen than on any other
strangers?
A. It is said, the dogs have three
accusations against the chapmen, which
has been handed down from father to
son, or from one generation of dogs to
another: the first is as as old as Æsop,
the great wit of Babylon.-- The dogs
having a law-suit against the cats, they
gained the plea; one of the dogs com-
ing trudging home with the Decreet
below his tail, a wicked chapman threw
his elwan at him, and he let the Decreet
fall, and so lost their great pivileges
thereby. The second is, Because in old
times the Chapman used to buy dogs
and kill them for their skins. The third
is, when a chapman was quartered in
a farmer's house, that night the Dog
lost his right of licking the pot.
Q. What creature resembles, most
a drunken piper?
A. A Cat when she sips milk, she
always sings, and so does a piper when
he drinks good ale.
