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He was a fine fellow, I doubt not: had much merit of his faultless bow, and great worth in the nicety of his spotless waistcoat, but God never made one so dull or so preposterous a blockhead.

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All who can, leave Prussia-and only blockheads or hypocrites are let in, with the exception of physical science; whoever can do so turns engineer, or goes into a house of business, or emigrates.

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"Blockhead!"

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"You are a blockhead!" exploded the younger man.

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The one thing that disturbed him was the thought of the blockhead of a chauffeur, who had got drunk before his return from Versailles.

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When we came home that day my father and mother held a long council over us and finally called us in and father said--"I have tried to make something out of you but you will never be anything but a blockheads--and I might as well make good indians out of you as poor ones." so he allowed us to use our guns smoke and chew rag-weed to our hearts content.

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My great uncle was, with reverence be it spoken, a great blockhead; but that was no fault of his, he being a younger brother, and the family genius being vested in my grandfather, with remainder to his sons in tail male.

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Why, I took you for an unobserving blockhead, or I would never have trusted you so near me.

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I fancy it was in one of your most decided unobserving fits that you took _me_ for a blockhead.

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That those not surcharged with the divine afflatus may be able to get at the meaning of the above paragraph, it is translated thus: "Then shall all the blockheads in the nincompoopdome of disclosive procedure above the all-fired leather-fungus of Peter Nephninnygo, the gooseberry grinder, rise into the dome of the disclosure until coequaled and coexistensive and conglomerate lumuxes in one comprehensive mux shall assimilate into nothing, and revolve like a bob-tailed pussy cat after the space where the tail was."

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"Your runner is a bit of a blockhead, as I think you'll admit.

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So my old man-the old blockhead-off he goes: "Marry, marry," he says, "he must marry her and cover the sin," he says.

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Eh, you blockhead!

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He is so stupid,-a regular blockhead!

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I told you the land must not be sold on credit, and everybody told you so, but you let yourself be deceived like the veriest blockhead.

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_Come, my Boys come_, &c. We ha' cheated the Parson, we'll cheat him agen, For why should a Blockhead ha' One in Ten: One in Ten, One in Ten, For why should a Blockhead ha' One in Ten, _One in Ten_, &c. For prating too long, like a Book learnt Sot, 'Till Pudding and Dumpling are burnt to Pot: Burnt to Pot, Burnt to Pot, 'Till Pudding and Dumpling are burnt to Pot.

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Jilt and smile when we adore 'em, While some Blockhead buys the Favour; Presents have more Power o'er 'em Than all our soft Love and Labour, Thus, like Zealots, with screw'd Faces, We our fooling make the greater, While we cant long winded Graces, Others they fall to the Creature.

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"What for a blockhead are you?" he cried, with big eyes.

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"Well, sir, you have only come to be discharged; for I will no longer have a stupid and useless blockhead about.

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Stupid and useless blockhead!

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Not content with that, you call me a stupid and useless blockhead--_me_, sir."

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"What are you about, you blockhead?

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their governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.'

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[179] There is no Resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but have we not paper and pens, and cannot every blockhead print his opinions, and the Day of Judgment become Republican, with everybody for a judge, and the flat of the universe for the throne?

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And if I admit it, as you do, so that efficacious grace is still necessary, why I sin against common-sense, I am a blockhead, say the Jesuits.

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What can I do in this dilemma, of being a blockhead, a heretic, or a Jansenist?

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"But, you little blockhead, can't I make you understand?

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Unfortunately for me (and, as I afterwards learned, to this worthy man's great indignation), I was transferred to the care, first of a blockhead, who was in a perpetual panic lest I should expose his ignorance; and, finally, to that of a respectable scholar, at the head of a great school on an ancient foundation.

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But the veriest blockhead and simpleton who ever lounged in a doorway or lisped in Pall Mall can tell a fine woman when he sees her, and is probably able to find pleasure and hope in the spectacle.

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It is these blockheads and simpletons who thus set the mode.

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you blockhead!" asked Tom Ingoldsby.

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For a few minutes they mounted skyward, climbing slowly, and the stout General tried to make his companion understand by much gesticulation that the blockhead was taking the wrong direction.

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But the "blockhead" knew what he was about, and after a half circle to test the working of the engines, he opened the throttle and shot her upwards at a terrific speed.

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Surely you are not going to make a blockhead of yourself by bolting?"

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But Sganarelle is a blockhead who will spoil everything.

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To the old man Gorgibus, to see his daughter who is ill; but you are a blockhead who, instead of doing what we want, might ... SGAN.

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Why, don't you see the man was a blockhead?

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It is the finest, the most rare and difficult talent that can be; but it is disgraced by blockheads, and proscribed by hypocrites.

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blockhead!

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And the epithet bestowed on Perugino by Michael Angelo, 'goffo nell' arte,' dunce, or blockhead, in art,--being, as far as my knowledge of history extends, the most cruel, the most false, and the most foolish insult ever offered by one great man to another,--does you at least good service, in showing how trenchant the separation is between the two orders of artists,[H]--how exclusively we may follow out the history of all the 'goffi nell' arte,' and write our Florentine Dunciad, and Laus Stultitiæ, in peace; and never trench upon the thoughts or ways of these proud ones, who showed their fathers' nakedness, and snatched their masters' fame.

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Nothing delights a true blockhead so much as to prove a negative;--to show that everybody has been wrong.

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I shall not stand with you for a Mistress or two; I hate a dull morose unfashionable Blockhead to my Husband; nor shall I be the first example of a suffering Wife, Sir.

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_Fat_ D. You're an ignorant Blockhead, Sir.

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_Ran._ Hah, our four reverend Justices--I hope the Blockheads will not know me--Gentlemen, can you direct me to Lieutenant General _Daring's_ Tents?

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_Ran._ I must lay him on-- _Dar._ There's not a Blockhead in the Country that has not-- _Ran._ What-- _Dar._ Been drunk with her.

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Why, Sister, this Rogue here--this unintelligible graceless Rascal here, will needs set up for a Rakehell, when there's scarce such a thing in the Nation, above an Ale-draper's Son; and chuses to be aukardly out of fashion, merely for the sake of Tricking and Poverty; and keeps company with the senseless, profane, lazy, idle, noisy, groveling Rascals, purely for the sake of spending his Estate like a notorious Blockhead: But I'll take care he shall not have what I can dispose of--You'll be a Rake-hell, will you?

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Take back the Powers, those Charms she's sworn adorn'd me, since a dull, fat-fac'd, noisy, taudry Blockhead, can serve her turn as well.

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He lives like a pig, too, excuse me, a clodhopper, a blusterer, a big-bellied blockhead, with a swollen red mug--makes me want to hit him in the eye, the blackguard.

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"Indeed I am a blockhead not to pay better attention; but the truth is, Jonker--excuse me, Freule--the custom is such an inveterate one."

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"You blockhead!" cried the master, beating him, "you stupid little fool, how can you show that?"

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[65] A "dizzard" = a blockhead.

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[4] 'Tis something like to this: "'She marries young, Perhaps in meek submission to the will Parental, or in hope of a support; In a few years,--as heart and brain mature, And knowledge widens,--finds her lord and master Is a wrong-headed churl, a selfish tyrant, A miser, or a blockhead, or a brute; Her love for him, if love there ever was, Is turned to hatred or indifference: What shall she do?

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'Why, no, you blockhead,' was the reply.

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LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--You blockhead, I ask you, did you tell him so?

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He imagined the child grown into a young man; he would make a companion of him; but perhaps he would be a blockhead, a wretched creature, in any event.

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They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!'

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It was not written by Naomi at all, and in my heart I cursed myself as a blockhead for being so easily duped.

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"The fellow is evidently a blockhead after all.

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She simply called her a "blockhead," who believed, like all country-people, that a few days in bed means death.

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He was a blockhead, he had a wooden head.

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Hence ev'ry Blockhead, Knave, and Dunce, Start into Preachers all at once (p. 29).

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Hence ev'ry Blockhead, Knave, and Dunce, Start into Preachers all at once.

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I believe the administration was said, by all the _Blockheads_, to be made up of all the _Talents_ in the country.

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This was very harmless and innocent pastime; tiresome, to be sure, yet laughable withal; nor did it call for any further rebuke than an occasional tap upon the cranium of some blockhead who forsook his legitimate sphere, thrust himself in your way, and became unsufferably blatant.

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And that is bad law, indeed, that recognises a natural right in blockheads to be blackguards, and gives unlimited license of brutality towards any man of genius who may have been ironical on the tribe.

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like a rolling stone, Thy giddy dulness still shall lumber on, Safe in its heaviness, shall never stray, But lick up ev'ry blockhead in the way.

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"There march'd the bard and blockhead side by side, Who rhym'd for hire, and patroniz'd for pride.

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Such is the hero's first speech, in which, contrary to all decorum and probability, he addresses the goddess Dulness, without disguising her as a despicable being, and even calls himself fool and blockhead.

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Nor do the other "seconds"--Julien's brutal peasant father and brothers, the notables of Verrières, the husband, M. de Rênal (himself a _gentillâtre_, as well as a man of business, a bully, and a blockhead), and the hero's just failure of a father-in-law, the Marquis de la Mole--seem to me to come up to the mark.

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By the former Klim was considered a blockhead, on account of the quickness of his perceptions; by the latter he was equally despised for the slowness of his apprehension.

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"Have you no sense, blockhead?" he cried.

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Line 15._ The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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1776._ No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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Blockhead, no, ever wrote for money, 373. the bookful, 325.

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Bookful blockhead, 325.

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Ignorantly read, blockhead, 325.

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Read and write comes by nature, 51. as inclination leads, 371. aught that ever I could, 57. blockhead ignorantly, 325. exceedingly well, 86. he that runs may, 422.

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"_Vivimos, vivís, viven._ _That_ is simple enough, you blockhead!

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Tell me, honest blockhead, did you ever hear such a name as Halfman?"

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Fools and blockheads!

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"Because the style is not in keeping with her character, blockhead!

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I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a blockhead--a very great man."

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"When Bayes thou play'st, thyself thou art; For that by nature fit, No blockhead better suits the part, Than such a coxcomb wit.

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I am as true a man to the King as any here; but I have taken no oath to that dotipole [blockhead] of Warwick; and if he play this game once too oft, he may find he hath fished and caught a frog."

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Grigory accepted the blow like a devoted slave, without a word, and when he escorted the old lady to her carriage he made her a low bow and pronounced impressively that, “God would repay her for the orphans.” “You are a blockhead all the same,” the old lady shouted to him as she drove away.

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There's another blockhead, that peasant there.

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That's why I told you to get out of harm's way, that you might understand that there would be trouble in the house, and would remain at home to protect your father.” “You might have said it more directly, you blockhead!” Ivan suddenly fired up.

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The man who would claim such a silly thing ought to be discarded from scientific and literary circles as a blockhead.

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When you address the blockhead majority, you must not only give them your text, you must tell them also what to think of it, otherwise there will be fine misinterpretation.

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You dazzle the blockhead public with a showy operation, and no one thinks of asking why it is that the necessity for this same operation recurs so often.

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But the clerical golfer, being a man of quick temper, poured forth a torrent of abuse, exclaiming, "How could I hole the ball with that blockhead over there working his umbrella as if it were the pendulum of an eight-day clock!"

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The next operation on the belly is cutting the _f_ or soundholes, and I need hardly say (for it has been so often said, that surely you must all be informed on this point), how the drawing, the placing, and the cutting of this most crucial test of a man's powers as an artist or workman, determines the extent of one or other, or both; for a man may be the one, and show himself a blockhead as to the other.

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Now, we are one of those plain people who like to look at things in the light of common reason, without regard to high-sounding titles, or lofty associations; and it is our unpretending opinion that the God of charity and mercy looks down with much greater approbation upon the act of feeding a starving family, or comfortably clothing a few of His naked little ones, than upon the bestowal of twenty or thirty thousand dollars on this or that University, for the purpose of endowing a Professor of Humbugonomy, that he may initiate a class of learned blockheads into the mysteries of star-gazing, patient-killing, legal fleecing, or cheating the devil by turning parson.

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"I merely hinted that you--well, you can't help seeing it yourself--" "Seeing what, you blockhead?"

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The mass-the English blockheads, God forgive me!-are hateful to me in my inmost soul; and I often regard them not at all as my fellow-men, but as miserable automata-machines, whose motive power is egoism.

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What a blockhead I am not to have put the book into my pocket; for, except in extreme cases, the traveller's person is never searched.

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_CONTENTS_ PAGE _The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership_ 1 _The Six Swans_ 4 _The Dragon of the North_ 9 _Story of the Emperor's New Clothes_ 21 _The Golden Crab_ 26 _The Iron Stove_ 32 _The Dragon and his Grandmother_ 38 _The Donkey Cabbage_ 42 _The Little Green Frog_ 50 _The Seven-headed Serpent_ 60 _The Grateful Beasts_ 64 _The Giants and the Herd-boy_ 75 _The Invisible Prince_ 78 _The Crow_ 92 _How Six Men travelled through the Wide World_ 95 _The Wizard King_ 100 _The Nixy_ 108 _The Glass Mountain_ 114 _Alphege, or the Green Monkey_ 119 _Fairer-than-a-Fairy_ 126 _The Three Brothers_ 134 _The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise_ 138 _The Glass Axe_ 141 _The Dead Wife_ 149 _In the Land of Souls_ 152 _The White Duck_ 155 _The Witch and her Servants_ 161 _The Magic Ring_ 178 _The Flower Queen's Daughter_ 192 _The Flying Ship_ 198 _The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son_ 206 _The Story of King Frost_ 209 _The Death of the Sun-hero_ 213 _The Witch_ 216 _The Hazel-nut Child_ 222 _The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus_ 225 _Prince Ring_ 237 _The Swineherd_ 249 _How to tell a True Princess_ 254 _The Blue Mountains_ 256 _The Tinder-box_ 265 _The Witch in the Stone Boat_ 274 _Thumbelina_ 279 _The Nightingale_ 291 _Hermod and Hadvor_ 301 _The Steadfast Tin-soldier_ 308 _Blockhead Hans_ 313 _A Story about a Darning-needle_ 319 _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_ _PLATES_ _The Swineherd takes the Ten Kisses_ _Frontispiece_ _The Six Brothers changed into Swans by their Stepmother_ _To face page_ 8 _The Witch-maiden sees the Young Man under a Tree_ " 12 _'Here you shall remain chained up until you die'_ " 20 _The Prince throws the Apple to the Princess_ " 30 _The Iron Stove_ " 32 _'Standing in the doorway a charming maiden at whose sight his mind seemed to give way'_ " 58 _The Seven-headed Serpent_ " 62 _The Mirror of the Present_ " 84 _Prince Gnome learns the Name of his Rival at the Golden Fountain_ " 88 _The Black Girl stops the Witch with a Bit of the Rock_ " 144 _Militza and her Maidens in the Garden_ " 168 _Iwanich casts the Fish into the Water_ " 172 _'In winter, when everything is dead, she must come and live with me in my palace underground'_ " 196 _Simpleton's Army appears before the King_ " 204 _The Snow Maiden_ " 206 _'Gee up, my five horses'_ " 226 _The Swineherd takes the Ten Kisses_ " 250 _The Irishman arrives at the Blue Mountains_ " 262 _The Witch comes on Board_ " 274 _Sigurd hews the Chain asunder_ " 276 _The King finds the Queen of Hetland_ " 302 _WOODCUTS IN TEXT_ PAGE _The Partnership_ 1 _At Home in the Church_ 2 _Protestation_ 3 _The Way of the World_ 3 '_And then her dress_' 7 _The Youth secures the Dragon_ 17 _The Emperor comes to see his New Clothes_ 24 '_Let down, let down thy petticoat that lets thy feet be seen_' 27 _The Fisherman brings the Crab on the Golden Cushion_ 28 '_Then she reached the three cutting swords, and got on her plough-wheel and rolled over them_' 35 _The Dragon carries off the Three Soldiers_ 39 _The Fiend defeated_ 41 _The Maiden obtains the Bird-heart_ 44 _The Hunter is transformed into a Donkey_ 46 _The Young Man gives the Donkeys to the Miller_ 48 _The Prince looks into the Magic Mirror_ 51 _Prince Saphir Steals the Horse and Harness_ 55 _Ferko healed by Magic Waters_ 67 _Ferko before the King_ 68 _Ferko leads the Wolves on_ 73 _The Herd-boy binds up the Giant's Foot_ 75 _Rosalie_ 82 _In the Labyrinth of Despair_ 85 _The Evil Spirits drag the Girl to the Cauldron_ 93 _My Enemy is given into my Hands_ 97 _The Princess and the Eagle in the Flowery Meadow_ 102 _The Wizard King pays a Visit to the Princess_ 105 _The Miller sees the Nixy of the Mill-pond_ 109 _A Wave swept the Spinning-wheel from the Bank_ 112 _The Boy attacked by the Eagle on the Glass Mountain_ 116 _The King makes Friends with the Green Monkey_ 121 _The Green Monkey in the Bath_ 123 _Lagree gives the Two Bottles to Fairer-than-a-Fairy_ 127 _Fairer-than-a-Fairy summons the Rainbow_ 130 '_Then the youth swung his mighty sword in the air, and with one blow cut off the serpent's head_' 136 '_My brother, my brother, I am becoming a wolf_!'

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[Illustration: And That Was the End] BLOCKHEAD-HANS Far away in the country lay an old manor-house where lived an old squire who had two sons.

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All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead-Hans.'

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