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W. A. Clouston. The Book of Noodles
The Book of Noodles
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ANCIENT GRECIAN NOODLES
CHAPTER II. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES, WITH VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES
CHAPTER III. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES (continued)
CHAPTER IV. GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES (continued)
CHAPTER V. THE SILLY SON
CHAPTER VI. THE FOUR SIMPLE BRÁHMANS
CHAPTER VII. THE THREE GREAT NOODLES
APPENDIX
INDEX
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W. A. Clouston
Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
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"King John, intending to pass through this place, towards Nottingham, was prevented by the inhabitants, they apprehending that the ground over which a king passed was for ever after to become a public road. The King, incensed at their proceedings, sent from his court soon afterwards some of his servants to inquire of them the reason of their incivility and ill-treatment, that he might punish them. The villagers, hearing of the approach of the King's servants, thought of an expedient to turn away his Majesty's displeasure from them. When the messengers arrived at Gotham, they found some of the inhabitants engaged in endeavouring to drown an eel in a pool of water; some were employed in dragging carts upon a large barn to shade the wood from the sun; and others were engaged in hedging a cuckoo, which had perched itself upon an old bush. In short, they were all employed in some foolish way or other, which convinced the King's servants that it was a village of fools."
The fooleries ascribed to the men of Gotham were probably first collected and printed in the sixteenth century; but that jests of the "fools of Gotham" were current among the people long before that period is evident from a reference to them in the Widkirk Miracle Plays, the only existing MS. of which was written about the reign of Henry VI.:
