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Varied accenting was retained. This hyphenation was so varied that images of the original "Notes" pageswere included in the this version. You may see these images by clicking on the pages numbers.
The Talking Thrush
And Other Tales from India
"A Crow is a Crow for ever."
The Talking Thrush
And Other Tales from India
Collected by W·CROOKE
And Retold by
W·H·DROUSE
Illustrated by W·H·Robinson.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
1922
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
1922
| First Published | October 1899 |
| Reprinted | July 1902; October 1922 |
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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
Preface
THE stories contained in this little book are onlya small part of a large collection of Indianfolk-tales, made by Mr. Crooke in the courseof the Ethnological Survey of the North-West Provincesand Oudh. Some were recorded by thecollector from the lips of the jungle-folk of Mirzápur;others by his native assistant, Pandit RámgharíbChaubé. Besides these, a large number were receivedfrom all parts of the Provinces in response to a circularissued by Mr. J. C. Nesfield, the Director of PublicInstruction, to all teachers of village schools.
The present selection is confined to the Beast Stories,[viii]which are particularly interesting as being mostly indigenousand little affected by so-called Aryan influence.Most of them are new, or have been published onlyin the North Indian Notes and Queries (referred to asN.I.N.Q.).
In the re-telling, for which Mr. Rouse is responsible,a number of changes have been made. The text ofthe book is meant for children, and consequently thefirst aim has been to make an interesting story. Thosewho study folk-tales for any scientific purpose willfind all such changes marked in the Notes. If thechange is considerable, the original docume
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