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Around 1610. Compilation of short tales of swindlers. Sealed silver, brocade cloth, bribing officials or their clerks … bribing test proctors… poison, boats, …
Some very weird. Marry guy to get him beat up by cloth seller, to extract silver from cloth seller. Give him bruises to cover murder, run off with silver…
Eunuch who eats children…
Kind of fun, but take them one at a time, otherwise monotonous.
— Mar 10, 2026 04:10AM
Some very weird. Marry guy to get him beat up by cloth seller, to extract silver from cloth seller. Give him bruises to cover murder, run off with silver…
Eunuch who eats children…
Kind of fun, but take them one at a time, otherwise monotonous.
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