The Orient Pearls
THE ORIENT PEARLS
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
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THE
ORIENT PEARLS
INDIAN FOLK-LORE
BY
SHOVONA DEVI
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1915
COPYRIGHT
PREFATORY NOTE
The idea of writing these tales occurred to me while reading a volume of short stories by my uncle, Sir Rabindranath Tagore; but as I have none of his inventive genius, I set about collecting folk-tales and putting them into an English garb; and the tales contained in the following pages were told to me by various illiterate village folks, and not a few by a blind man still in my service, with a retentive memory, and a great capacity for telling a story.
CONTENTS page 1 13 - The Wax Prince
20 - The Golden Parrot
29 - The Tables Turned
37 - The Princess with the Borrowed Life
43 - The Hermit Cat
47 - The Crop of Fried Maize
50 - The Monkey Bridegroom
53 - The Wooden Maid
57 - The Lucky Moustache
63 - The Flutes of Fortune and Misfortune
66 - The Sand-River, the Stone-Boat, and the Monkey-Ferryman
72 - The Monkey Giant-Killer
79 - The Golden Calf
84 - The Wages of Sin
97 - A Nose for a Nose
101 - The Jackal the Complainant, the Goat the Accused, and the Wolf the Judge
107 - The Riddle of the Puppets
110 - The Bride of the Sword
117 - The Foolish Vow
127 - The Pearl Goose
138 - The Ungrateful Goat
146 - The Elephant-Wrestler
151 - Uncle Tiger
158 - The Crab Prince
162 - The Giant Outwitted by the Dwarf
168 - The Hireling Husband
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