Just found this in Michael Newton’s The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic (Cape Breton University Press: 2014). This Ode to a Snuff Box was first printed in 1780, but Newton says it could well be older. It’s originally in Gaelic, but I’ve omitted that here.

Welcome to you, O box

And your good powder along with you:

Good, sharp, brown tobacco

Which causes a workhorse to fart.

Stripped, crushed and roasted:

It will sidestep the nose

And reach the brain:

It will revive the spirit of the old woman

Who lost it seven years previous.

There is no disease of the blood

Or repeated swelling

Or any nature of sickness

In a person

Thanks for that. Snuff was highly popular in the Highlands because the weather made it hard to smoke they say.

The work horse reminds me of an old Spoonerism.

What is the difference between a knights steed and a brewery dray horse ?

A knights steed darts into the fray.

A brewery horse farts into the dray.

:)) =))

Nice one! I feared turning 40 this year, but woke up the next day and found I was still able to laugh at fart jokes. :))

@ArgentOrangeOK

40 years is nothing to worry about.   

 I just worked out, I was told that joke by my physics teacher in 1970.      That was 47 years ago. 

It seems to have stood the test of time.