[7] Wretches that swear to affidavits upon all occasions, without knowing the contents, or the person they are exhibited against.[31] Sheriffs officers, MERELY from their being SUCH, are excepted in the formation of all neighbourly communities.[39] Aristotle and Elian relate, that a dog loses the faculty of barking when he opens; that he imitates the speech of a human being for the purpose of gaining admittance into their houses to devour them.[40] The lady who occasionally officiates as wife, bawd, priestess, or any thing most convenient, often serenades him with a rehearsal of his elegy, insisting on’t he must be hanged.