Chettle, _Kindheart's Dream_ (1592).

=Nuath= (2 _syl._), father of Lathmon and Oith'ona (_q.v._).--Ossian,
_Oithona_.

=Nubbles= (_Mrs._), a poor widow woman, who was much given to going to
Little Bethel.

_Christopher_ or _Kit Nubbles_, her son, the servant in attendance on
little Nell, whom he adored. After the death of little Nell, Kit married
Barbara, a fellow-servant.--C. Dickens, _The Old Curiosity Shop_ (1840).

=Nugent Dubourg=, twin brother of Oscar Dubourg, somewhat conceited, who
patronizes his brother, and would like to marry his brother's betrothed,
Lucilla Finch, blind and an heiress. Her sight is restored by an
operation, and Nugent places himself where her eyes will first fall upon
him, instead of on his disfigured brother. Beginning with this, he
personates Oscar until Lucilla again loses her sight. He then yields her
to his brother, joins an Arctic exploring expedition, and perishes in
the Polar regions.--Wilkie Collins, _Poor Miss Finch_.

=Numa Roumestan=, French deputy from the South of France. Audacious, gay
and unprincipled, he possesses all the qualities that render him "the
joy of the street, the sorrow of the home."--Alphonse Daudet, _Numa
Roumestan_.

=Number Nip=, the name of the gnome king of the Giant Mountains.--Musaeus,
_Popular Tales_ (1782).

[Asterism] Musaeus was a German, uncle of Kotzebue (died 1788).

=Nuncanou= (_Aurore and Clotilde_). Beautiful Creoles, mother and
daughter, in George W. Cable's novel, _The Grandissimes_.

=Nun's Tale= (_The_), the tale of the cock and the fox. One day, dan
Russell, the fox, came into the poultry-yard, and told Master
Chanticlere, he could not resist the pleasure of hearing him sing, for
his voice was so divinely ravishing. The cock, pleased with this
flattery, shut his eyes, and began to crow most lustily; whereupon dan
Russell seized him by the throat, and ran off with him. When they got to
the wood, the cock said to the fox, "I would recommend you to eat me at
once, I think I can hear your pursuers." "I am going to do so," said the
fox; but when he opened his mouth to reply, off flew the cock into a
tree, and while the fox was deliberating how he might regain his prey,
up came the farmer and his men with scythes, flails, and pitchforks,
with which they despatched the fox without mercy.--Chaucer, _Canterbury
Tales_ (1388).

[Asterism] This fable is one of those by Marie, of France, called _Don
Coc and Don Werpil_.

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