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Q. What is the reason a dog runs
twice round about before the lie down
to rest him?
A. Because he does not know the
head of his bed from the foot of it.
Q. What creature resembles most a
long, lean, ill-looking, greasy-faced
lady, for pride?
A. None so much as a cat, who is
continually spitting in her lufe and rub-
bing her face, as many such ladies do
the brown leather of their wrinkled
chaſts.
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 broad goose
lays her first egg on Easterns Even, old
stile; the crows begin to build their nests
about the first of March, old stile; the
swans observe matrimony, and if the fe-
male hie, the male dare not take up with
another or the rest will put him to death;
all the birds in general join in pairs and
