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A. Fabulous Historian says, that there was three little holes in Noah’s Ark; and that the dog stopt his nose in one, and the man put his knee in another, and into the third and biggest hole, the woman bang’d her backside: and these parts being exposed to the cold blast, makes them always cold ever since.
Q. What remedy does the man take for warming his cold knees?
A. He holds them towards the fire; and when in bed, draws his shirt down over them.
Q. What does the woman do, to warm their cold parts?
A. The married women put their backside into their husbands’ arms:—Virgins, and those going mad for marriage, their maidenhead keeps them warm:—old matrons, and whirl’d-o’er maidens, and widows bewitched, hold their coldest parts to the fire.
Q. And what remedy does the poor dog take, for his cold nose?
He staps it below his tail, the hotest bit in his body.
