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is ell-wan at him, and he let the Deereet full
and so lost their great privileges thereby. The
second is, because in old times the chapmen
used to buy dogs and kill them for their skins.
The third reason is, when a chapman was quartered at a farmer's house, that night the Dog
lost his right of licking the po
Q. What creature resembles most a drunken
Piper?
A. A Cat when she sips milk, for then she
always sings, and so does a piper when he drinks
good ale.
Q. What is the reason a dog runs twice round
before he lies down?
A. Because he does not know the head of
his bed from the foot of it.
Q. What creature resembles most a long
dean, ill-looking greasy-faced lady, for pride?
A. None so much as a cat, who is continually spitting in her lufe and rubing her
face, as many such ladies do the brown leather
of their wrinkled shafts.
Q. Amongst what sort of creatures will you
observe most of a natural law, or instinctive
knowledge?
A. The Hart and the Hind meet on one certain day in the year; the Brood Goose, lays her first egg on Eastern's Even, old stile; the Crows
