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Q What is the most effectual cure and
infallible remedy for a scolding wife?
A. The only cure is to get out of the
hearing of her: but the infallible remedy
is to nail her tongue to a growing tree,
in the beginning of a cold winter-night,
and so let it stand till sun-rising next
morning, then she'll become one of the
peace blest women that ever lay by a
man's side.
Q. What time of the year is it that
there are most holes open?
A. In harvest when there are stubbles.
Q. What times is a cow heaviest?
A. When the bull's bull's on her back.
Q. Who was the goodman's muckle
cow's calf's mother?
A. The muckle cow herself.
Q. What is the likeliest thing to a man
on a horse?
A. A Tailor on a mare.
