The Scots Pipers Queries
till sun-rising next morning she'll become one of the peaceablest woman 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 stubles.
Q. At what time is the cow heaviest?
A. When the bull is on her back.
Q. Who was the goodman's muckle cow's calf's mother.
A: None but the neckle cow herself.
Q. What is the likest thing to a man and a horse?.
A. A taylor and a mare.
Q. What is the hardest dinner that ever a taylor laid his teeth to?
A. His own goose tho' never so well boiled and roasted.
Q. How many toads tails will it take to reach up to the moon?
A. One if it be long enough,
Q. How many sticks gangs to the bigging of a craw's nest?
A, None, for they are all carried.
Q. How many whites will a well made pudding-prick need?
A. If it be well made it needs no more.
Q. Who was the father of Zebedee's chil.
A. Who but himself.
Q. Where did Moses go when he was full fifteen years old?
A. Into his sixteenth.
