Scotland/Scots > Scots piper's queries, or, John Falkirk's carriches

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i iage, ihe heat of their maideii-heads
keeps them warm; old matrons and
whirl’d o’er maidens, widows, and wi¬
dows bewitched, hold up their cold
parts to the fire.
Ch And what remedy does the poor
dog take for his cold nofe ?
A. Staps it in below his tail, the
hotteft bit in his bndy.
CX What is the reafon that dogs are
worle on chapmen, than on any other
ft range people ?
A. It'is faid the dogs have three ac-
cufations againft the chapmen, hand¬
ed down from father to fon, or from
one generation of dogs to another: the
firft is as old asyEfop, the great wit
of Babylon, the dog having a law-fuit
againft the cat, gained the plea, and
coming trudging home with the de¬
creet below his tail, a wicked chap¬
man throwing his elwand at him, he
let it fall,, and fo loft his privileges.
The fecond is, becaufe in old times
the chapmen ufed to buy dogs and kill
them for their fkins. The third is,
when a chapman was quartered in a