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O. What are the five greatest rarities
to be found in the world Phoenix?
A. A black Swan, a Pheonix, an
Unicorn, the Philosophers Stone, and
a maiden at sixteen.
Q. What is the greatest folly that
sensible people can be guilty of?
A. To go to law about trifles, for,
whatever way the plea end, the law-
yers will be the greatest gainers.
Q. Who has the honestest trade in
the world?
A. Ballad-singers; for they always
deal with ready-money: and it is as
ancient as the Siege of Troy, for Homer
was a ballad singer.
Q. What is the surest method for one
to become both rich and respectable?
A. To be sober and industrious.
Q. What is the best method of over-
coming the argument of a positive
person?
A. Either to say with him, or give
him no answer.
Q. What is the wisest course to be
followed by a man who has a brawling
and scolding wife?
A. To keep silent, and then she'll
bite her own fingers with anger.
END OF THE CARICHES.
