Chapter 2 : p.16 CHAPTER II. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES, WITH VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES. T 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 foolish, arrant noodles or simpletons. The Greeks had...
Chapter 7 : p.191 CHAPTER VII. THE THREE GREAT NOODLES. EW 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 the fundamental outline is identical, wherever the story is found;...
Chapter 3 : p.56 CHAPTER III. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES ("continued"). HE 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 collected near the close of the sixteenth century, the earliest known...
Chapter 5 : p.121 CHAPTER V. THE SILLY SON. MONG 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 he is set to do. In vain does his poor mother try to direct him in "the way he should go"...
Chapter 1 : p.1 THE BOOK OF NOODLES. CHAPTER I. ANCIENT GRECIAN NOODLES. "LD 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 "genera " reader--a comprehensive term, which, doubtless, signifies one who knows "small...
Preface : p.iiix "PREFACE." IKE popular tales in general, the original sources of stories of simpletons are for the most part not traceable. The old Greek jests of this class had doubtless been floating about among different peoples long before they were reduced to writing. The only tales and apologues...
Appendix : p.219 APPENDIX. HE idea of the old English jest-book, "Jacke of Dover His Quest of Inquire, or His Privy Search for the Veriest Foole in England" (London: 1604), may perhaps have been suggested by such popular tales as those of the man going about in quest of three greater fools than his wife...
Untitled : THE BOOK OF NOODLES: STORIES OF SIMPLETONS; OR, FOOLS AND THEIR FOLLIES. BY W. A. CLOUSTON, Author of "Popular Tales and Fictions: their Migrations and Transformations "Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling when all is done."-"-Twelfth Night." LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1888...
Chapter 4 : p.81 CHAPTER IV. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES ("continued"). ALES 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 our common English version of that fascinating story-book--which deserves...
