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From Tales of Humour, Anonymous, London: Burns and Oates; New York: Benzigers; undated (c. 1890); cover and title pages.



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Decorated Title in Red Tales of Humour,embossed with gold.

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TALES OF HUMOUR




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BURNS AND OATES

28, ORCHARD ST.,
LONDON, W.

BENZIGERS: NEW YORK





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CONTENTS.



CLICK ON THE BOOK, CHAPTER TITLE, DESCRIPTION OR PAGE NUMBER, AND YOU WILL GO TO THAT CHAPTER, IN A NEW BROWSER WINDOW.


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Richard de St. Julien, or, an Adventure in the Forest  8


The Gascon, or the Statesman’s Blow 29


Doctor Peperkouk 41


The Present of the Emperor 81


The Shooting Excursion 97


Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Saxon Schoolmaster 117


An Anecdote of Alice of Burgundy 151


Uncle Scipio, or Modern Improvements 163


The Interview 213


Baldwin the Ninth 235


A Royal Hunt of the Sixteenth Century 249


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