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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 peaceblest 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 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.
