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T The Birth of Owlglass, and how he was thrice baptized | 1 |
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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 |
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