Q. What is the difference between a boiled sheep’s, head and a sheep’s head boiled? A. In the first the sheep is boiled and in the last the head is boiled. Q. What kind of snuff is that, the more that is taken the fuller the box is? A. It is the snuff off the candle. Q. What relation is that child to its own father who is not its father’s own son? A. Surely his daughter. Q. What is that which is often brought to table, always cut, but never eaten? A. A pack of cards. Q. Where was Peter when his candle went out? A. He was in the dark. Q. What relation is your uncle’s brother to you who is not your uncle? A. He must be your father. Q. What difference is there between twice five and twenty and twice twenty five? A. The former is 30, the later is 50. Q. Why is a brewer’s horse like a tap-ster? A. Because they draw drafts of drink. END OF THE CARICHES. THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF TAM MERRILEES A True Story. Some years ago there dwelt in the “south side” of the gude town of Edinburgh a wight of the name of Tam Merrilees, who, saving that he occasionally took rather more of “strong waters” than he could walk steadily under, generally got the name of an honest, industrious, hard-working man. It happened one evening that Tam, in going home, met with an old crony of his, who vehemently pressed him to adjourn to a favourite haunt of their’s to wit a well frequented taproom in the neighbourhood. As Tam had an unfortunate weakness of never being able to withstand the pressing solicitations of a friend “to tak a gill wi him,” he was in the present instance constrained to accept Jock Thomson’s invitation, more especially as Jock declared that “he would stand the damage himsel”. Whether they exceeded the original stipulation of “just one gill” or Tam had been previously refreshing himself I cannot say, certain it was, that when the friends parted, Tam found it extremely difficult to walk in a straight line.