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"The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass" by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie is a collection of humorous tales written in the mid-19th century. The book recounts the whimsical exploits of Tyll Owlglass, a clever and roguish character from German folklore known for his sharp wit and cunning tricks that often parody societal norms. The stories promise to offer both entertainment and social commentary reflecting the period's cultural and literary sensibilities. The opening of the work introduces Tyll Owlglass as a distinctive and mischievous figure whose antics are both humorous and insightful. We learn about his birth, which is marked by multiple christenings, hinting at his extraordinary nature. As a child, he showcases his wit and cleverness in amusing interactions with adults, such as offering sage advice to a traveler and duping a baker to procure bread for his mother. These early adventures set the tone for Owlglass's future exploits, filled with comedic mischief and social satire, suggesting that readers can anticipate a series of entertaining and thought-provoking tales that explore the follies of human nature through the experiences of this unforgettable character. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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• PREFACE.
• CONTENTS.
• ILLUSTRATIONS.
• The Introduction touching Master Tyll Owlglass.
• The First Adventure.How Tyll Owlglass was born and was in one day three times christened.
• The Second Adventure.How that Owlglass when that he was a child did give a marvellous answer to a man that asked the way.
• The Third Adventure.How all the boors did cry out shame upon Owlglass for his knavery; and how he rode upon a horse behind his father.
• The Fourth Adventure.How Owlglass did learn to dance upon a rope, and did fall therefrom into the river Saale.
• The Fifth Adventure.How Owlglass did move two hundred young people, that they did give unto him their shoes, with the which he made rare sport upon his rope.
• The Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass his mother did move him that he should learn a handicraft.
• The Seventh Adventure.How Owlglass did deceive a baker at Strasfurt, and gat bread for his mother.
• The Eighth Adventure.How Owlglass with other children, was forced to eat fat soup, and gat blows likewise.
• The Ninth Adventure.How Owlglass brought it about that the stingy farmer’s poultry drew for baits.
• The Tenth Adventure.How Owlglass was again moved of his mother to depart to a foreign land, that he might learn a handicraft.
• The Eleventh Adventure.How Owlglass crept into a bee-hive, how two thieves came by night to steal honey, what honey they did steal, and how Owlglass made it to come to pass, that the thieves did fight one with the other, and did leave the bee-hive standing.
• The Twelfth Adventure.How Owlglass for little money did have a singing bird for his dinner.
• The Thirteenth Adventure.How Owlglass did eat the roasted chicken from off the spit.
• The Fourteenth Adventure.How that Owlglass did publish abroad that he would fly from off the roof of the town-house at Magdeburg.
• The Fifteenth Adventure.How Owlglass did cure the sick folks in the hospital at Nürnberg in one day, and what came thereafter.
• The Sixteenth Adventure.How Owlglass bought bread according to the proverb: “To him that hath bread is bread given.”
• The Seventeenth Adventure.How Owlglass became a doctor, and did cure many folk.
• The Eighteenth Adventure.How that Owlglass became a drawer of teeth and cured all by a wondrous pill.
• The Nineteenth Adventure.How that Owlglass did at Brunswick hire him to a baker, and did there bake owls and monkeys.
• The Twentieth Adventure.How Owlglass did again hire him unto a baker, and how he bolted meal in the moon’s light.
• The Twenty and First Adventure.Telleth of what manner of thinking was Owlglass, and how he formed his life according unto principles of virtue and goodness.
• The Twenty and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass did hire him to the Count of Anhalt to blow the horn on a tower, and when that enemies did approach, then blew he not; and when that they came not, then blew he.
• The Twenty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass did have golden shoes struck unto his horse’s feet.
• The Twenty and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass did have a great contention before the King of Poland with two other fools.
• The Twenty and Fifth Adventure.How Owlglass did make confession to a priest, and took from him a silver box.
• The Twenty and Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass was forbidden the dukedom of Lunenburg, and how he did cut open his horse and stand therein.
• The Twenty and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass did buy an inheritance in land from a boor, and how he sate therein in a cart.
• The Twenty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass painted the forbears of the Landgrave of Hessen, and told him that an if he were ignobly born, he might not behold his painting.
• The Twenty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass was for little money well entertained of two innkeepers.
• The Thirtieth Adventure.How that Owlglass did tell his master how he might scape giving pork unto his neighbours.
• The Thirty and First Adventure.How that Owlglass conferred with the rector and masters of the University of Prague in Bohemia, and how he did make answer unto their questions, and therein came off most wisely.
• The Thirty and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass did on a time mix him up in a marriage strife, and did soon end it with great renown.
• The Thirty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass did cause an ass to read certain words out of a book at the great university of Erfurt.
• The Thirty and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass did kill a hog, and answered for his evil doing unto the burghmaster.
• The Thirty and Fifth Adventure.How that Owlglass at Nugenstädten, in the land of Thuringia, did wash the women’s furs.
• The Thirty and Sixth Adventure.Telleth how that Owlglass journeyed about the land with a saint’s head, and did beguile many therewith.
• The Thirty and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass did make the town-watch of Nürnberg to fall into the water which is called the Pegnitz.
• The Thirty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass did at Bamberg eat for money.
• The Thirty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass did make a wager with a Jew about a horse, and did deceive him.
• The Fortieth Adventure.How Owlglass did have much money for an old hat.
• The Forty and First Adventure.How that Owlglass journeyed unto Rome to see the Pope, and how his Holiness considered that Owlglass was an heretic.
• The Forty and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass without money bought poultry at Quedlingburg, and for security gave unto the farmer’s wife the cock.
• The Forty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass, with a knavish confession, did beguile the priest at Riesenburg of his horse.
• The Forty and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass did hire him to a smith, and what he did while with him.
• The Forty and Fifth Adventure.How that Owlglass did cause all the tools, hammers, and tongs of a smith to be as one mass of iron.
• The Forty and Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass did speak a word of truth unto a smith, his wife, man, and maid, each one before the house.
• The Forty and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, did with guile delude two Jews of rings.
• The Forty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass served a shoemaker, and how that he inquired of him what shapes he should cut; and the master answered him, and said: “Great and small, as the herdsman driveth forth to field.” Therefore cut he oxen, cows, calves, sheep, and pigs.
• The Forty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass bought eggs and had them tightly packed.
• The Fiftieth Adventure.How that Owlglass made a soup for a boor, and put therein shoemaker’s oil; for that, in his nobility, he thought it good enow for the boor.
• The Fifty and First Adventure.This chapter is a special chapter, telling how that a bootmaker sought to beguile Owlglass by greasing his boots, and how that Owlglass looked through the window, and brake it.
• The Fifty and Second Adventure.Telleth how that Owlglass at Einbeck became a brewer’s man, and did seethe a dog which was called Hops.
• The Fifty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass hired him unto a tailor, and sewed so secretly that it was not seen of any one.
• The Fifty and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass caused three tailors to fall from their board, and then would have persuaded the people that the wind had blown them down.
• The Fifty and Fifth Adventure.How that Owlglass assembled all the tailors throughout the whole land of Saxony, by proclaiming that he would teach them a mighty useful thing, that would get bread both for them and their children.
• The Fifty and Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass beat wool upon a saint’s day, and that very high.
• The Fifty and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass was hired by a furrier, and did sleep among the skins.
• The Fifty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass on a time, at Berlin, did make wolves.
• The Fifty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass, being servant unto a great lord, did fetch for him wine and beer together in a most delectable manner.
• The Sixtieth Adventure.How that Owlglass for a tanner prepared leather with stools and benches, at the good city of Brunswick on the Dam.
• The Sixty and First Adventure.How that Owlglass was groom unto a noble lord, and what knavery he wrought unto his lord’s horse, Rosimond.
• The Sixty and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass beguiled the drawer at the town-house cellar of Lübeck, and did for a can of wine give him a can of water.
• The Sixty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass ’scaped hanging by his cunning, and would have hanged himself for a crown, yet did not.
• The Sixty and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass, at Helmstadt, caused a great pocket to be made.
• The Sixty and Fifth Adventure.How that Owlglass, at Erfurt, beguiled a butcher.
• The Sixty and Sixth Adventure.Telleth how that good Master Owlglass again beguiled the butcher at Erfurt, by pleasing him with a most grateful jingle.
• The Sixty and Seventh Adventure.Touching the faults of the which our noble Master Owlglas had a few; for he was human, and in all human things is imperfection.
• The Sixty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass at Dresden became a carpenter, and for his pains earned little thanks.
• The Sixty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass did hire himself unto the master of a saw mill.
• The Seventieth Adventure.How that Owlglass became a maker of spectacles, and perceived that trade was very bad.
• The Seventy and First Adventure.How that Owlglass of a boor at the fair of Gerau took leather.
• The Seventy and Second Adventure.How that at Hildesheim Owlglass did hire himself unto merchant to be his cook, and what tricks he played unto him.
• The Seventy and Third Adventure.How that at Greifswald good Master Owlglass came unt the Rector of the University, and proclaimed himself to be a master in all languages, save in one only, to wit, the Spanish tongue.
• The Seventy and Fourth Adventure.How that Owlglass did at Wismar become a horse-dealer, and beguiled a merchant.
• The Seventy and Fifth Adventure.How that Owlglass wrought a great knavery upon a pipemaker at Lüneburg.
• The Seventy and Sixth Adventure.How that an old woman mocked the good Master Owlglass when that at Gerdau he lost his pocket.
• The Seventy and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass gained money by a horse.
• The Seventy and Eighth Adventure.How that at Oltzen Owlglass did beguile a boor of a piece of green cloth, and caused him to confess that it was blue.
• The Seventy and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass most strangely gat a potful of money.
• The Eightieth Adventure.How that Owlglass ran great peril of his neck for receiving the pot of money, yet gat fifteen shillings in stead of a hanging.
• The Eighty and First Adventure.How with good luck Owlglass told many that he had lost his money-girdle, and thereby came unto a warm fire.
• The Eighty and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass did at Bremen of the market-women buy milk, and cause it to be poured altogether into one tun.
• The Eighty and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass spake unto twelve blind men, and persuaded them that he had unto them given twelve shillings; and how that they spent the money and came evilly off thereafter.
• The Eighty and Fourth Adventure.How that in a city of Saxony Owlglass sowed knaves.
• The Eighty and Fifth Adventure.How that in the good city of Hamburg Owlglass hired him unto a barber and went through the casement unto his service.
• The Eighty and Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass did cause the host of the inn at Eisleben to be beset with great terror, by showing unto him a wolf, of the which he professed no fear.
• The Eighty and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass paid his host with the ring of his money.
• The Eighty and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass at Lübeck did escape from a house when that the watch would have taken him for his debts.
• The Eighty and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass at Stassfurt of a dog took the skin, the which he gave unto his hostess for her charges.
• The Ninetieth Adventure.How that our noble master gave assurance unto the same hostess, that Owlglass lay upon the wheel.
• The Ninety and First Adventure.How that Owlglass caused a Hollander from a plate to take an apple, the which evilly ended for the eater.
• The Ninety and Second Adventure.How that Owlglass caused a woman to break in pieces the whole of her wares in the market-place at Bremen.
• The Ninety and Third Adventure.How that Owlglass sold a horse, the which would not go over trees.
• The Ninety and Fourth Adventure.How that of a horse-dealer Owlglass bought a horse, and only paid half of the money therefor.
• The Ninety and Fifth Adventure.How that in the land of Brunswick Owlglass turned shepherd.
• The Ninety and Sixth Adventure.How that without money Owlglass bought a pair of shoes.
• The Ninety and Seventh Adventure.How that Owlglass sold unto the furriers at Leipzig a live cat, the which was sewed into the skin of a hare; and how rare sport came thereof.
• The Ninety and Eighth Adventure.How that Owlglass hired himself unto a boor.
• The Ninety and Ninth Adventure.How that Owlglass gat him to the High School of Paris.
• The Hundredth Adventure.How Owlglass would fain have been an innkeeper at Rouen, but was beguiled by a one-eyed man, and again, in turn, cozened him.
• The Hundred and First Adventure.How in Berlin Owlglass was an officer, and collected taxes of the boors.
• The Hundred and Second Adventure.How that in his latter days Owlglass became a pious monk, and what came thereof.
• The Hundred and Third Adventure.How that when at Möllen Owlglass lay sick, his mother came unto him.
• The Hundred and Fourth Adventure.How that when Owlglass was sick unto death, he made confession of three things, the which it sorely troubled him he had not done.
• The Hundred and Fifth Adventure.Saith, How that to a greedy priest Owlglass confessed his sins, and paid him handsomely for his pains.
• The Hundred and Sixth Adventure.How that Owlglass in three parts did divide all that belonged unto him; and the one part gave he freely unto his friends, and another thereof humbly to the town council of Möllen, and the third part unto the priest there.
• The Hundred and Seventh Adventure.How that at Möllen Owlglass died, and the swine did cast down the coffin when that the good priests sang the vigil.
• The Hundred and Eighth Adventure.How that our for ever prized Master Owlglass was buried.
• The Hundred and Ninth Adventure.Telleth what stood upon his gravestone.[13]
• The Hundred and Tenth Adventure.How in after time our most excellent Owlglass was esteemed so worthy that he was made a holy Saint; and on the day of All Fools in April do the folk alway keep his memory, as also when they do a foolish thing, the which maketh him continually esteemed of great and small.
• The Hundred and Eleventh, and Last, Adventure.Reciteth a few grave reflections of this present chronicler.
• APPENDIX A.Bibliographical Notes for the Literary History of Eulenspiegel.
• Chapter 118
• APPENDIX B.The historical Eulenspiegel and his gravestone.
• APPENDIX C.Of Dr. Thomas Murner, the author of Eulenspiegel.
• APPENDIX D.The verses inserted by William Copland in the English black-letter Howleglas of 1528.
• APPENDIX E.The Bakâla legend of the Valacqs analogous to Owlglass.
• APPENDIX F.Works akin to the Eulenspiegel literature.
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