Picture-Book of Merry Tales

Today's free book is A Picture-Book of Merry Tales (author and illustrator unknown; year unknown). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg (I have not checked for other online sources). There's also a free audiobook at LibriVox.



Table of Contents

I. The Birth of Owlglass, and how he was thrice baptized
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
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
IV. How Owlglass ate a roasted Fowl off the spit, and did only half Work
V. How Owlglass was forbidden the Duchy of Luneburgh, and bought himself Land of his own
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
VII. How, at Erfurt, Owlglass taught a Donkey to read
VIII. How Owlglass brought it about that the Watch of Nurenberg fell into the Water
IX. How Owlglass appears as Dentist and Doctor
X. How Owlglass sells his Horse to a Jew, and on what Terms
XI. How Owlglass sells an Old Hat for more than its Weight in Gold
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
XIII. How a Bootmaker of Brunswick larded Owlglass’s Boots; and how he was paid for doing so
XIV. How Owlglass hires himself to a Tailor; and how well he executes his Master’s Orders
XV. How Owlglass caused Three Tailors to fall from their Work-board, and persuaded the People that the Wind had blown them down
XVI. How Owlglass tells a Truth to a Smith, to his Wife, his Assistant, and his Maidservant, for which he gets his Horse shod
XVII. How Owlglass hired himself to a Merchant as Cook and Coachman
XVIII. How Owlglass cheated a Horse-dealer at Wismar, and afterwards cheated the Public
XIX. How Owlglass sowed Rogues
XX. How Owlglass hired himself to a Barber, and entered his House through the Window
XXI. How Owlglass frightened an Innkeeper at Eisleben with a dead Wolf
XXII. The Grateful Animals
XXIII. Tim Jarvis
XXIV. The Shoemaker and the Dwarfs
XXV. The Countryman and the Jew
XXVI. My Watch
XXVII. Fittletetot
XXVIII. The wee Bannock
XXIX. Jock and his Mother
XXX. The Irish Highwayman
XXXI. Fiddling Jackey
XXXII. Teeny-Tiny
XXXIII. The Cannibal Cow
XXXIV. The Three Men of Gotham on Nottingham Bridge
XXXV. The Man of Gotham and his Cheeses
XXXVI. Twelve Men of Gotham go out Fishing together
XXXVII. The Cobbler’s Wager
XXXVIII. The Miller and his Donkey
XXXIX. Dr. Dobbs, and his Horse Nobbs
XL. The Brownie