The Complete Drunkard. He would not give money to sober people, he
said they would only eat it and send their children to school with
it.
The Contented Porpoise. It knew it was to be stuffed and set up in a
glass case after death, and looked forward to this as to a life of
endless happiness.
The Flying Balance. The ghost of an old cashier haunts a ledger, so
that the books always refuse to balance by the sum of, say, 1 pounds
.15.11. No matter how many accountants are called in, year after
year the same error always turns up; sometimes they think they have
it right and it turns out there was a mistake, so the old error
reappears. At last a son and heir is born, and at some festivities
the old cashier's name is mentioned with honour. This lays his
ghost. Next morning the books are found correct and remain so.
A Dialogue between Isaac and Ishmael on the night that Isaac came
down from the mountain with his father. The rebellious Ishmael tries
to stir up Isaac, and that good young man explains the righteousness
of the transaction--without much effect.
Bad Habits: on the dropping them gradually, as one leaves off
requiring them, on the evolution principle.
A Story about a Freethinking Father who has an illegitimate son which
he considers the proper thing; he finds this son taking to immoral
ways, e.g. he turns Christian, becomes a clergyman and insists on
marrying.
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