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Old Deccan Days

31 chapters, 294 passages

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Contents

• The Collector's Apology
• The Narrator's Narrative
• I. Punchkin
• II. A Funny Story
• III. Brave Seventee Bai
• IV. Truth's Triumph
• V. Rama and Luxman; or the Learned Owl
• VI. Little Surya Bai
• VII. The Wanderings of Vicram Maharajah
• VIII. Less Inequality than Men Deem
• IX. Panch-Phul Ranee
• X. How the Sun, the Moon, and the Wind Went Out to Dinner
• XI. Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals
• XII. The Jackal, the Barber, and the Brahman who had seven daughters
• XIII. Tit for Tat
• XIV. The Brahman, the Tiger, and the Six Judges
• XV. The Selfish Sparrow and the Houseless Crows
• XVI. The Valiant Chattee-Maker
• XVII. The Raksha's Palace
• XVIII. The Blind Man, the Deaf Man, and the Monkey
• XIX. Muchie-Lal
• XX. Chundun Rajah
• XXI. Sodewa Bai
• XXII. Chandra's Revenge
• XXIII. How the Three Clever Men Outwitted the Demons
• XXIV. The Alligator and the Jackal

Front matter

• Title Page
• Preface to the Third English Edition
• Introduction
• Notes on the Narrator's Narrative
• Notes on the Fairy Legends

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