Category: Humour
Reputed communities of stupids in different countries--The noodles of Norfolk: their lord's bond; the dog and the honey; the fool and his sack of meal--Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham: Andrew Borde not the author-- The two Gothamites at Notts Bridge--The hedging of the cuckoo--...
Among the favourite jests of all peoples, from Iceland to Japan, from India to England, are the droll adventures and mishaps of the silly son, who contrives to muddle everything...
8. CHAPTER II.It seems to have been common to most countries, from very ancient times, for the inhabitants of a particular district, town, or village to be popularly regarded as pre-eminently...
10. CHAPTER IV.Tales of sharpers' tricks upon simpletons do not quite fall within the scope of the present series of papers, but there is one, in the _Arabian Nights_--not found, however, in o...
13. CHAPTER VII.Few folk-tales are more widely diffused than that of the man who set out in quest of as great noodles as those of his own household. The details may be varied more or less, but...
9. CHAPTER III.The Schildburgers, it has been already remarked, are the Gothamites of Germany, and the stories of their stupidity, after being orally current for years among the people, were c...
12. CHAPTER VI.[As a sort of supplement to the sayings and doings of the silly son, the following highly diverting Indian tale is here inserted, from the Abbé Dubois' French rendering of the T...
7. CHAPTER I."Old as the days of Hierokles!" is the exclamation of the "classical" reader on hearing a well-worn jest; while, on the like occasion, that of the "general" reader--a comprehens...
3. CHAPTER IV.The simpleton and the sharpers--The schoolmaster's lady-love--The judge and the thieves--The calf's head--The Kashmírí and his store of rice-- The Turkish noodle: the kerchief;...
1. CHAPTER II.Reputed communities of stupids in different countries--The noodles of Norfolk: their lord's bond; the dog and the honey; the fool and his sack of meal--Tales of the Mad Men of G...
4. CHAPTER V.Simple Simon--The Norse booby--The Russian booby--The Japanese noodle-- The Arabian idiot--The English silly son--The Sinhalese noodle with the robbers--The Italian booby--The A...
2. CHAPTER III.The men of Schilda: the dark council-house; the mill-stone; the cat-- Sinhalese noodles: the man who observed Buddha's five precepts--The fool and the _Rámáyana_--The two Arabia...
5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VII.