CONTENTS.

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 BRAHMIN WHO HAD SEVEN DAUGHTERS.

XIII. TIT FOR TAT.

XIV. THE BRAHMIN, THE TIGER AND THE SIX JUDGES.

XV. THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS.

XVI. THE VALIANT CHATTEE-MAKER.

XVII. THE RAKSHAS' PALACE.

XVIII. THE BLIND MAN, THE DEAF MAN AND THE DONKEY.

XIX. MUCHIE LAL.

XX. CHUNDUN RAJAH.

XXI. SODEWA BAI.

XXII. CHANDRA'S VENGEANCE.

XXIII. HOW THE THREE CLEVER MEN OUTWITTED THE DEMONS.

XXIV. THE ALLIGATOR AND THE JACKAL.

NOTES ON THE NARRATOR'S NARRATIVE. NOTE A.

NOTES ON THE FAIRY LEGENDS. PUNCHKIN.

COLLECTED FROM ORAL TRADITION,
By M. FRERE.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
By SIR BARTLE FRERE.

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1870.

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Lippincott’s Press, Philadelphia.
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VICRAM MAHARAJAH—p. 133.