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.

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1870.

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

CONTENTS.

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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