Pepper & Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk

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Preface

The Skillful Huntsman

TWO OPINIONS

Ye song of ye foolish old woman

A NEWSPAPER PUFF

THREE FORTUNES

Claus and his wonderful stuff

VENTURESOME BOLDNESS

SUPERFICIAL CULTURE

How Dame Margery Twist saw more than was good for her

YE SONG OF YE GOSSIPS

A VICTIM TO SCIENCE

PLAY & EARNEST

THE ACCIDENT OF BIRTH

Clever Peter and the Two Bottles

YE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF THREE TAILORS

FANCY AND FACT

YE TWO WISHES

A VERSE WITH A MORAL BUT NO NAME

Hans Hecklemann's Luck

YE SONG OF YE RAJAH & YE FLY

PRIDE IN DISTRESS

PROFESSION & PRACTICE

A TALE OF A TUB

Farmer Griggs's Boggart

YE STORY OF A BLUE CHINA PLATE

MORAL BLINDNESS

OVERCONFIDENCE

THE FORCE OF NEED

The Bird in the Linden Tree

A DISAPPOINTMENT

YE SAD STORY CONCERNING ON INNOCENT LITTLE LAMB AND FOUR WICKED WOLVES

The Apple of Contentment

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Once upon a time there was a lad named Jacob Boehm, who was a practical huntsman.

One day Jacob said to his mother, "Mother, I would like to marry Gretchen – the nice, pretty little daughter of the Herr Mayor."

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So Jacob laid his hands to the plough and – whisk! – away it went like John Stormwetter's colt, with Jacob behind it. Out of the farm-yard they went, and down the road, and so to the Herr Mayor's house, and behind them lay three fine brown furrows, smoking in the sun.

When the Herr Mayor saw them coming he opened his eyes, you may be sure, for he had never seen such a plough as that in all of his life before.

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