STORY THE FORTY-NINTH --THE SCARLET BACKSIDE.

_Of one who saw his wife with a man to whom she gave the whole of her
body, except her backside, which she left for her husband and he made
her dress one day when his friends were present in a woollen gown on the
backside of which was a piece of fine scarlet, and so left her before
all their friends._


STORY THE FIFTIETH -- TIT FOR TAT.

_Of a father who tried to kill his son because the young man wanted to
lie with his grandmother, and the reply made by the said son._


STORY THE FIFTY-FIRST -- THE REAL FATHERS.

_Of a woman who on her death-bed, in the absence of her husband, made
over her children to those to whom they belonged, and how one of the
youngest of the children informed his father._


STORY THE FIFTY-SECOND -- THE THREE REMINDERS.

_Of three counsels that a father when on his deathbed gave his son, but
to which the son paid no heed. And how he renounced a young girl he had
married, because he saw her lying with the family chaplain the first
night after their wedding._