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A PICTURE-BOOK OF
MERRY TALES.

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The Dwarfs’ Capers.

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A
Picture-Book
OF
Merry Tales.

London: Bosworth and Harrison, 215, Regent Street.


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CONTENTS.

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The Birth of Owlglass, and how he was thrice baptized
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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 all5
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 them10
IV.
How Owlglass ate a roasted Fowl off the spit, and did only half Work15
V.
How Owlglass was forbidden the Duchy of Luneburgh, and bought himself Land of his own19
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 Painting23
VII.
How, at Erfurt, Owlglass taught a Donkey to read...

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