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The full name of this book is: Chinese Night's Entertainment: Forty Stories told by Almond-eyed Actors in the Romance of "The Strayed Arrow" and was published in 1893.

From the book's Preface:

These tales have been heard or overheard by the writer, as they were told in the Swatow vernacular, by persons who could not read. They and their kind have furnished mental entertainment for her during many nights when travelling in a slow native boat, or sitting in a dim native hut, with almond-eyed women and children, in the eastern corner of the Kwangtung province, in Southern China. She is not aware that any of these stories have before been rendered into a European tongue. They have been selected from among many, not less interesting, but less intelligible to those who are unfamiliar with the beliefs and ustoms of The Middle Kingdom.

The romance of The Strayed Arrow, on which the other forty stories are strung, as beads on a thread, runs through the volume to an Oriental climax.

A. M. F.
New York, 1893

Chapters:

The Five Queer Brothers
The Three Talismans
The Origin of Ants
The Mistake of the Apes
The Moon-Cake
The Fool of the Family
He Tried to be Like His Brother
A Dreadful Boar
The Two Melons
The Blind Boy's Fall
The Fairy Serpent
What the Birds Said
The Man in a Shell
The Young Head of the Family
Prospect and Retrospect
A Foreordained Match
Marrying a Simpleton
Baling with a Sieve
The Widow and the Sagacious Magistrate
A Lawyer as a Debtor
The Singing Prisoner
Self-Convicted
The Ladle that Fell from the Moon
A Wife's Vengeance
Stolen Garlic
Two Frugal Men
The Most Frugal of Men
Misapplied Wit
Similar Diseases
A Dream Inspired
A Fortuitous Application
Jean Valjean in Cathay
A Polite Idiosyncrasy
Verified Predictions
The Three Sworn Brothers
The Peasant-Girl's Prisoner
Crabs in Plenty
False Economy
The Thriftless Wife
A Wife with two Husbands

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