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قراءة كتاب A Picture-book of Merry Tales
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 1
A
Picture-Book
OF
Merry Tales.
London: Bosworth and Harrison, 215, Regent Street.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
|---|---|
| I. | |
 The Birth of Owlglass, and how he was thrice baptized |
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 | |