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[ See Chapter xxx.]
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[ This work consists of fifty folk tales written in the Neapolitan dialect. They are supposed to be told by ten old women for the entertainment of a Moorish slave who had usurped the place of the rightful Princess. Thirty-one of the stories were translated by John E. Taylor in 1848. There is a reference to it in Burton's Arabian Nights, Lib. Ed., ix., 280.]
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[ Meaning, of course, Lord Houghton's money.]
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[ Cf. Esther, vi., 8 and 11.]
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[ Ought there not to be notices prohibiting this habit in our public reference libraries? How many beautiful books have been spoilt by it!