The Maid and the magpie, or, The real thief detected : an entertaining tale, founded upon a well-known fact of an amiable girl who was sentenced to suffer upon strong circumstantial evidence of stealing various articles of plate, which were afterwards found to have been stolen by a magpie.

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"The story ... is a brief narrative of the piece, as first performed in Paris, under the title of La pie voleuse, or The magpie thief [by L.C. Caigniez and J.M.T. Baudouin d'Aubigny] ..." -- pref.
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Etched frontispiece and engraved t.p. are included in pagination.
P. 27 omitted from pagination sequence.
Watermark: 1813.