Woo. Chinese merry tales

Today's free book is Chinese merry tales by Y. T. Woo (1909). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

I. Vine Bowers and Their Dangers
II. A Self-Sacrificing Neighbor
III. The Easiest Way to Learn Chinese
IV. How Useful the Biggest Volumes May Be
V. Where do you go ?
VI. Imperial Grief
VII. The Grateful Debtor
VIII. Tea or Bath
IX. The Tamed Magistrate
X. Scepticism and Cruelty of Cats
XI. Easy Removing
XII. The Man Who Had More Right
XIII. "I Burnt Him Yesterday"
XIV. Asking the Road
XV. The Happiness of Blind Men
XVI. The Thirsty Dog
XVII. The Hen-pecked Husbands' Club
XVIII. Disputing about Etiquette
XIX. Unlucky Words for a Student
XX. The Griefs of a Literary Husband
XXI. Explaining the Classics
XXII. The Dog is a Teacher
XXIII. " Where have I gone ? "
XXIV. Military Examinations
XXV. The Golden Ox
XXVL Gratefulness of a Target God
XXVII. Harmless Vengeance
XXVIII. His Wife's True Age
XXIX. Hiding the Spade 
XXX. Your Head is Too Soft
XXXI. The Portrait Painter
XXXII. The Hardships of a Tailor
XXXIII. Reckoning the Age
XXXIV. The Rope and The Ox
XXXV. Sorry Hemembrance
XXXVI. About Bridges in Soochow and Turnips in Shantung
XXXVII. Ingenious Talking
XXXVIII. Kick, Please
XXXIX. Jealousy in Dreams
XL. The Shamed Thief
XLI. The Deaf and Dumb
XLII. The M^ay of Paying Half Price
XLIII. Take a Chair
XLIV. The Likeness of a Portrait
XLV. The Charm Against Mosquitoes
XLVI. One Pair of Shoes for Two
XLVII. She is Thinking of the Boatman
XLVIII. The Drum of Wonder
XLIX. Hyprocrisy of Religious Persons and Cats
L. The Hasty Man
LI. Riding a Tiger
LII. Attraction of Music
LIII. Hardships of Travelling
LIV. The Griefs of a Tiger
LV. Shensi Poetry
LVI. How Books May Be Useful
LVII. Sparing Half the Glass
LVIll. Very Good Fists
LIX. Difference of Taste
LX. The Taoist Priest on the Door
LXI. Difference in Relation
LXII. The Humble Moon
LXIII. The Ascetic Cat
LXIV. How Rare Are The Great Sages
LXV. Riches of a Beggar
LXVI. Prayers and Domestic Economy
LXVII. A Shoemaker in Hell
LXVIII. Difference in Punctuation
LXIX. How to Save a Father
LXX. Bad Luck for a Doctor
LXXI. The Charitable Deceiver
LXXII. Brotherly Cultivation of Fields
LXXIII. The Refrain of the Song
LXXI V. The Square Serpent
LXXV. The Salt Eggs
LXXVL Two Taels a Night
LXXVIL The Way of Going to Hell
LXXVIII. How to Pay Debts
LXXIX. The Theft of Wine
LXXX. The One Thousand Taels
LXXXL Conversational Misunderstandings
LXXXII. The Price of Boots
LXXXIII. Sound Sleepers
LXXXIV. Tall Monkeys
LXXXV. Rich and Poor
LXXXVL The Boaster
LXXXVIL The Voyage to Soochow
LXXXVIII. The Two Pairs of Boots
LXXXIX. The Mud Shoes
XC. The Mosquitoes
XCI. The Brother Liars
XCIL Talking of The Sky
XCIII. Dead by Mistake
XCIV. Kill Me One Half 
XCV. How to Heal a Hunchback
XCVI. Economy in Danger
XCVII. Only I and a Beggar
XCVIII. The Great Wash Tub
XCIX. The Arrow Wound
C. Unlucky Sayings
CI. The Stupid Worm