Wise Saws and Modern Instances
by Thomas Cooper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cooper, Thomas, 1805-1892
- Title
- Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2)
- Credits
- Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Short stories, English
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 55951
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55951
- Release Date
- November 12, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Transcriber's Note
- 3.WORKS — WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES.
- 4.TO DOUGLAS JERROLD.
- 5.ADVERTISEMENT.
- 6.CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
- 7.KUCKY SARSON, THE BARBER; OR, THE DISCIPLE OF EQUALITY.
- 8.RAVEN DICK, THE POACHER; OR, "WHO SCRATCHED THE BULL?"
- 9.TIM SWALLOW-WHISTLE, THE TAILOR; OR, "EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY."
- 10.DAVY LIDGITT, THE CARRIER; OR, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT HIS NINEPENCE TO NOUGHT.
- 11.THE FISHERMAN AND THE FIDDLER; OR, "DON'T SAY SO TILL YOU ARE SURE."
- 12.MASTER ZERUBBABEL, THE ANTIQUARY; AND HOW HE FOUND OUT THE "NOOSE LARNING."
- 13.THE BEGGARED GENTLEMAN, AND HIS CROOKED STICK.
- 14.THE NURTURE OF A YOUNG SAILOR; OR, THE HISTORY OF COCKLE TOM.
- 15.THE LAST DAYS OF AN OLD SAILOR; OR, "BUTTER YOUR SHIRT! SING TANTARA-BOBUS, MAKE SHIFT!"
- 16.DOROTHY PYECROFT'S PREACHING; OR, "CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME."
- 17.THE MINISTER OF MERCY.
- 18."MERRIE ENGLAND"—NO MORE!
- 19.SETH THOMPSON, THE STOCKINGER; OR, "WHEN THINGS ARE AT THE WORST, THEY BEGIN TO MEND."
- 20.SAM SIMKINS, THE RUN-AWAY; OR, VILLAINY AS A REFUGE FROM THE TORTURES OF SOUR-GODLINESS.
- 21.BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY JEREMIAH HOW.
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