Contents

Title Page
Preface to the Third English Edition

Introduction

The Collector's Apology

The Narrator's Narrative

I. Punchkin

II. A Funny Story

III. Brave Seventee Bai

IV. Truth's Triumph

V. Rama and Luxman; or the Learned Owl

VI. Little Surya Bai

VII. The Wanderings of Vicram Maharajah

VIII. Less Inequality than Men Deem

IX. Panch-Phul Ranee

X. How the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind Went Out to Dinner

XI. Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals

XII. The Jackal, the Barber, and the Brahman who had seven daughters

XIII. Tit for Tat

XIV. The Brahman, the Tiger, and the Six Judges

XV. The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows

XVI. The Valiant Chattee-Maker

XVII. The Raksha's Palace

Xviii. The Blind Man, the Deaf Man, and the Monkey

XIX. Muchie-Lal

XX. Chundun Rajah

XXI. Sodewa Bai

XXII. Chandra's Revenge

Xxiii. How the Three Clever Men Outwitted the Demons

XXIV. The Alligator and the Jackal

Notes on the Narrator's Narrative

Notes on the Fairy Legends

Glossary