A
Picture-Book
OF
Merry Tales.
London: Bosworth and Harrison, 215, Regent Street.
[CONTENTS.]
| Page | |
|---|---|
| I. | |
| [1] |
| II. | |
| How all the People of the Village, both Men and Women, made complaints of young Owlglass; and how, whilst on horseback with his Father, without his knowledge, he made game of them all | [5] |
| III. | |
| How Owlglass crept into a Beehive; and how, when two Thieves came in the night to steal it, he managed to set them quarrelling, so that they came to blows and left the Hive behind them | [10] |
| IV. | |
| How Owlglass ate a roasted Fowl off the spit, and did only half Work | [15] |
| V. | |
| How Owlglass was forbidden the Duchy of Luneburgh, and bought himself Land of his own | [19] |
| VI. | |
| Of the manner in which Owlglass paints a Picture for the Count of Hessen, and how he persuades him that those of base birth could not see the Painting | [23] |
| VII. | |
| How, at Erfurt, Owlglass taught a Donkey to read | [29] |
| VIII. | |
| How Owlglass brought it about that the Watch of Nurenberg fell into the Water | [33] |
| IX. | |
| How Owlglass appears as Dentist and Doctor | [37] |
| X. | |
| How Owlglass sells his Horse to a Jew, and on what Terms | [41] |
| XI. | |
| How Owlglass sells an Old Hat for more than its Weight in Gold | [45] |
| XII. | |
| How Owlglass, by means of a false Confession, cheated the Priest of Riesenburgh out of his Horse; and how he steals another Priest’s Snuff-box | [48] |
| XIII. | |
| How a Bootmaker of Brunswick larded Owlglass’s Boots; and how he was paid for doing so | [56] |
| XIV. | |
| How Owlglass hires himself to a Tailor; and how well he executes his Master’s Orders | [60] |
| XV. | |
| How Owlglass caused Three Tailors to fall from their Work-board, and persuaded the People that the Wind had blown them down | [63] |
| XVI. | |
| How Owlglass tells a Truth to a Smith, to his Wife, his Assistant, and his Maidservant, for which he gets his Horse shod | [66] |
| XVII. | |
| How Owlglass hired himself to a Merchant as Cook and Coachman | [70] |
| XVIII. | |
| How Owlglass cheated a Horse-dealer at Wismar, and afterwards cheated the Public | [78] |
| XIX. | |
| How Owlglass sowed Rogues | [82] |
| XX. | |
| How Owlglass hired himself to a Barber, and entered his House through the Window | [85] |
| XXI. | |
| How Owlglass frightened an Innkeeper at Eisleben with a dead Wolf | [90] |
| XXII. | |
| The Grateful Animals | [95] |
| XXIII. | |
| Tim Jarvis | [106] |
| XXIV. | |
| The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs | [115] |
| XXV. | |
| The Countryman and the Jew | [121] |
| XXVI. | |
| My Watch | [130] |
| XXVII. | |
| Fittletetot | [140] |
| XXVIII. | |
| The wee Bannock | [148] |
| XXIX. | |
| Jock and his Mother | [154] |
| XXX. | |
| The Irish Highwayman | [161] |
| XXXI. | |
| Fiddling Jackey | [169] |
| XXXII. | |
| Teeny-Tiny | [199] |
| XXXIII. | |
| The Cannibal Cow | [203] |
| XXXIV. | |
| The Three Men of Gotham on Nottingham Bridge | [224] |
| XXXV. | |
| The Man of Gotham and his Cheeses | [231] |
| XXXVI. | |
| Twelve Men of Gotham go out Fishing together | [236] |
| XXXVII. | |
| The Cobbler’s Wager | [243] |
| XXXVIII. | |
| The Miller and his Donkey | [256] |
| XXXIX. | |
| Dr. Dobbs, and his Horse Nobbs | [263] |
| XL. | |
| The Brownie | [268] |
