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Index:Indian fairy tales (1892).djvu

Title Indian Fairy Tales (Jacobs)
Author Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
Year 1892
Publisher David Nutt
Location London
Source djvu
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Contents

    PAGE
I. THE LION AND THE CRANE 1
II. HOW THE RAJA'S SON WON THE PRINCESS LABAM 3
III. THE LAMBIKIN 17
IV. PUNCHKIN 21
V. THE BROKEN POT 38
VI. THE MAGIC FIDDLE 40
VII. THE CRUEL CRANE OUTWITTED 46
VIII. LOVING LAILI 51
IX. THE TIGER, THE BRAHMAN, AND THE JACKAL 66
X. THE SOOTHSAYER'S SON 70
XI. HARISARMAN 85
XII. THE CHARMED RING 90
XIII. THE TALKATIVE TORTOISE 100
XIV. A LAC OF RUPEES FOR A PIECE OF ADVICE 103

XV.

THE GOLD-GIVING SERPENT 112
XVI. THE SON OF SEVEN QUEENS 115
XVII. A LESSON FOR KINGS 127
XVIII. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL 132
XIX. RAJA RASALU 136
XX. THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN 150
XXI. THE FARMER AND THE MONEY-LENDER 152
XXII. THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156
XXIII. THE PRINCE AND THE FAKIR 179
XXIV. WHY THE FISH LAUGHED 186
XXV. THE DEMON WITH THE MATTED HAIR 194
XXVI. THE IVORY CITY AND ITS FAIRY PRINCESS 199
XXVII. SUN, MOON, AND WIND GO OUT TO DINNER 218
XXVIII. HOW THE WICKED SONS WERE DUPED 221
XXIX, THE PIGEON AND THE CROW 223
     
  NOTES AND REFERENCES 227


Full-page Illustrations


PRINCESS LABAM Frontispiece
THE LION AND THE CRANE To face page 2
PUNCHKIN " 36
LOVING LAILI " 64
THE CHARMED RING " 96
THE SON OF SEVEN OUEENS " 120
RAJA RASALU " 146
BOY WITH MOON ON FOREHEAD " 165
DEMON WITH MATTED HAIR " 196


[Plates, vignettes, initials, and cuts are from "process" blocks supplied by
Messrs. J. C. Drummond & Co. of Convent Garden.]

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