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ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
| PAGE | |
| Love at first sight | 2 |
| How the Birds were brought to the Sultan | 5 |
| The Swallow brings the Note to Lino | 18 |
| Pull as He might, He could not get free | 37 |
| ‘Is this the Man that You wish to Marry?’ | 62 |
| The Farmer finds the Queen weeping by the Palanquin | 73 |
| The Unlucky Shot | 75 |
| Ameer Ali wins the Anklet | 78 |
| The Princess saves the White Fox | 100 |
| Imani attends to the Crippled Fakir | 121 |
| Imani listens to what the Monkeys say | 127 |
| Maia carried off by the Cockchafer | 135 |
| Maia and the Spiders in the Evening | 141 |
| He helped her to jump from the Swallow’s back | 142 |
| The Poisoned Nail | 159 |
| The Invisible Prince goes with the Ladies | 194 |
| The King laughs at the Billygoat | 213 |
| Suddenly the Tree rose up again and flew away | 240 |
| The Snake Prince visits his Wife | 251 |
| The Robber-chief catches the Queen | 259 |
| The Hawk flies away with the Lamp | 271 |
| The Silent Princess speaks at last | 327 |
MADSCHUN
Once upon a time there lived, in a small cottage among some hills, a woman with her son, and, to her great grief, the young man, though hardly more than twenty years of age, had not as much hair on his head as a baby. But, old as he looked, the youth was very idle, and whatever trade his mother put him to he refused to work, and in a few days always came home again.
On a fine summer morning he was lying as usual half asleep in the little garden in front of the cottage when the sultan’s daughter came riding by, followed by a number of gaily dressed ladies. The youth lazily raised himself