William Ralston Shedden Ralston

PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS.

I. PHÚLMATI RANI.

II. THE POMEGRANATE KING.

III. THE CAT AND THE DOG. Introduction.

IV. THE CAT WHICH COULD NOT BE KILLED.

V. THE JACKAL AND THE KITE.

VI. THE VORACIOUS FROG.

VII. THE STORY OF FOOLISH SACHÚLI.

VIII. BARBER HIM AND THE TIGERS.

IX. THE BULBUL AND THE COTTON-TREE.

X. THE MONKEY PRINCE.

XI. BRAVE HIRALALBASA.

XII. THE MAN WHO WENT TO SEEK HIS FATE.

XIII. THE UPRIGHT KING.

XIV. LOVING LAILI.

XV. HOW KING BURTAL BECAME A FAKIR.

XVI. SOME OF THE DOINGS OF SHEKH FARID.

XVII. THE MOUSE.

XVIII. A WONDERFUL STORY.

XIX. THE FAKIR NANAKSA SAVES THE MERCHANT'S LIFE.

XX. THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN.

XXI. THE BEL-PRINCESS.

XXII. HOW THE RAJA'S SON WON THE PRINCESS LABAM.

XXIII. THE PRINCESS WHO LOVED HER FATHER LIKE SALT.

XXIV. THE DEMON IS AT LAST CONQUERED BY THE KING'S SON.

XXV. THE FAN PRINCE.

XXVI. THE BED.

XXVII. PANWPATTI RANI.

XXVIII. THE CLEVER WIFE.

XXIX. RAJA HARICHAND'S PUNISHMENT.

XXX. THE KING'S SON AND THE WAZIR'S DAUGHTER.

NOTES. INTRODUCTORY.

GLOSSARY.

LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Note

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INDIAN FAIRY TALES

COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED

BY

MAIVE STOKES.

WITH NOTES BY MARY STOKES,

AND AN INTRODUCTION BY W. R. S. RALSTON, M.A.

London:
ELLIS & WHITE, NEW BOND STREET.
1880.

[All Rights reserved.]

To my dear Grannie, Susan Bazely.