Q. What is the 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 her stand till sun-rising next morning, she’ll become one of the peacegblest women that ever lay by a man’s side.
Q. What time of the year is it that there is most holes open?
A. In harvest when there are stubbles.
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 muckle cow herself.
Q. What is the likeliest thing to a man and a horse?
A. A tailor and a mare.