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Contents.
How Howleglass took occasion to place his hostess upon a seat of hot coals |
255 |
How Howleglass pretended to bestow twenty florins on twelve blind men, as a signal act of charity |
213 |
How Howleglass put another landlord to rout by the sight of a dead wolf at Islebec |
217 |
How Howleglass flayed a little dog and made a present of its skin to its mistress, the hostess, to settle a part of his score |
221 |
How Howleglass farther mocked the same hostess, by making her believe that he was taken prisoner and stretched upon a wheel |
225 |
How Howleglass deceived a Dutchman with a roasted apple |
226 |
How Howleglass prevailed upon a woman to destroy her own earthen ware |
228 |
How Howleglass broke the chapel steps of the holy monks going to sing matins, and what ensued |
230 |
How Howleglass grew very sick at Mullen; how he treated the apothecary, at whose house he was; how he was carried to the hospital, and what he said |
233 |
How Howleglass once purchased some buttermilk, and the manner in which he paid for it |
236 |
How Howleglass entered into the order of St. Antony, and preached at a village near Barcelona, in Catalonia; and exhibited relics to the people which he had brought from the Holy land |
237 |
How Howleglass, becoming a miller, extricated the parson of the village out of a great dilemma |
243 |
How Howleglass was imposed upon by a blind magistrate, and how he treated him in his turn |
249 |
The subtile vengeance taken by Howleglass when he embraced the party of some Frenchmen against a Spaniard |
250 |
How Howleglass growing infirm makes his will, and departs this life |
253 |
His Epitaph |
255 |