PART I.

STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDAS.

NO.

1 The Making of the Great Earth 47 2 The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy 52 3 The Story of Senasura 54 4 The Glass Princess 57 5 The Frog Prince 67 6 The Millet Trader 72 7 The Turtle Dove 79 8 The Prince and the Princess 93 9 Tamarind Tikka 100 10 Matalange Loku-Appu 108 11 The White Turtle 113 12 The Black Storks' Girl 120 13 The Golden Kaekiri Fruit 129 14 The Four Deaf Persons 134 15 The Prince and the Yaka 137 16 How a Yaka and a Man fought 146 17 Concerning a Man and Two Yakas 148 18 The Three Questions 150 19 The Faithless Princess 157 20 The Prince who did not go to School 160 21 Nagul-Munna 169 22 The Kule-baka Flowers 173 23 Kurulu-gama Appu, the Soothsayer 179 24 How a Prince was chased by a Yaksani 186 25 The Wicked King 191 26 The Kitul Seeds 197 27 The Speaking Horse 199 28 The Female Quail 201 29 The Pied Robin 206 30 The Jackal and the Hare 209 31 The Leopard and the Mouse-deer 213 32 The Crocodile's Wedding 216 33 The Gamarala's Cakes 219 34 The Kinnara and the Parrots 224 35 How a Jackal settled a Lawsuit 228 36 The Jackal and the Turtle 234 37 The Lion and the Turtle 241