JOHN FALKIRK'S
C A R I C H E S.
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Q. What is the wisest behaviour of
of ignorant persons?
A. To speak of nothing but what
they know, and to give their opinion of
nothing but what they understand.
Q. What time is a scolding wife at
the best?
A. When she is fast asleep.
Q. What time is a scolding wife at
the worst?
A. When she is that wicked as to tear
the hair out of her head, when she can't
get at her neighbours, and thro' perfect
spite bites her own tongue with her own
teeth.---My hearty wish is, that all such
wicked vipers may ever do so.
