Chapter I: Front Matter

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OLD
DECCAN DAYS

OR

HINDOO FAIRY LEGENDS

_CURRENT IN SOUTHERN INDIA._

COLLECTED FROM ORAL TRADITION,
BY M. FRERE.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
BY SIR BARTLE FRERE.

[Decoration]

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1870.

Lippincott's Press, Philadelphia.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 5

THE COLLECTOR'S APOLOGY 12

THE NARRATOR'S NARRATIVE 15

1. PUNCHKIN 27

2. A FUNNY STORY 44

3. BRAVE SEVENTEE BAI 51

4. TRUTH'S TRIUMPH 81

5. RAMA AND LUXMAN; OR, THE LEARNED OWL 98

6. LITTLE SURYA BAI 113

7. THE WANDERINGS OF VICRAM MAHARAJAH 129

8. LESS INEQUALITY THAN MEN DEEM 161

9. PANCH-PHUL RANEE 164

10. HOW THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE WIND WENT OUT
TO DINNER 194

11. SINGH RAJAH AND THE CUNNING LITTLE JACKALS 196

12. THE JACKAL, THE BARBER AND THE BRAHMIN WHO HAD
SEVEN DAUGHTERS 199

13. TIT FOR TAT 218

14. THE BRAHMIN, THE TIGER AND THE SIX JUDGES 220

15. THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS 225

16. THE VALIANT CHATTEE-MAKER 227

17. THE RAKSHAS' PALACE 236

18. THE BLIND MAN, THE DEAF MAN AND THE DONKEY 248

19. MUCHIE LAL 258

20. CHUNDUN RAJAH 268

21. SODEWA BAI 280

22. CHANDRA'S VENGEANCE 291

23. HOW THE THREE CLEVER MEN OUTWITTED THE DEMONS 314

24. THE ALLIGATOR AND THE JACKAL 326

NOTES 333