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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 rubbing her face, as many such ladies do the brown leather of their wrinkled chafts.
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 female 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
