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The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

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Confenfe.<br />

PREFACE<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

PAGE<br />

VII<br />

XIII<br />

PROLOGUE BY BAR-HEBRiEUS 3<br />

LIST OF CHAPTERS<br />

5<br />

SAYINGS OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS 7<br />

SAYINGS 'OF THE PERSIAN SAGES 18<br />

SAYINGS OF THE INDIAN SAGES 28<br />

SAYINGS OF THE HEBREW SAGES<br />

3 I<br />

SAYINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN RECLUSES 38<br />

SAYINGS OF THE MUHAMMADAN KINGS i 56<br />

STORIES OF TEACHERS AND LEARNED MEN 66<br />

SAYINGS OF THE ARAB ASCETICS 70<br />

SAYINGS OF PHYSICIANS 80<br />

STORIES OF THE SPEECH OF IRRATIONAL BEASTS 90<br />

STORIES OF THOSE WHOSE DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE 95<br />

STORIES OF WEALTHY AND LIBERAL MEN 105<br />

STORIES OF MISERS<br />

Ill<br />

STORIES OF MEN WHO FOLLOWED DESPISED HANDICRAFTS ... 122<br />

STORIES OF ACTORS AND COMEDIANS<br />

STORIES OF CLOWNS AND SIMPLETONS<br />

I29<br />

I40<br />

STORIES OF LUNATICS AND DEMONIACS 156<br />

STORIES OF THIEVES AND ROBBERS 165<br />

STORIES OF WONDERFUL EVENTS , . . . 170

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