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  1 Pre   |  folk-tales with her charming, "Old Deccan Days" (London, John
  2 Labam |         a house where he saw an old woman.~"Who are you? "she
  3 Labam |       eat me."~"Well," said the old woman, "you may stay here
  4 Labam |        s son was very glad. The old woman began preparing dinner,
  5 Labam |         on two gold plates. The old woman and the Raja's son
  6 Labam |       had finished eating, 'the old woman said, "Now I will
  7 Labam |         carried him back to the old woman's house.~Next morning
  8 Labam |       there.~In the morning the old woman came to the Raja's
  9 Labam |      morning."~"Good," said the old woman. So he stayed, and
 10 Labam |        Then he went back to the old woman's house and slept
 11 Labam |         When it was morning the old woman said to the Raja's
 12 Labam |         one may see me." So the old woman let him stay.~When
 13 Labam |     prince then returned to the old woman's house; and when
 14 Labam |         the Raja's son told the old woman that he intended to
 15 Labam |        princess. "Oh," said the old woman, "go away from this
 16 Labam |      sent for the prince to the old woman's. house, and his
 17 Labam |         the mustard seed to the old woman's house, and did not
 18 Labam |   little bed; so he went to the old woman's house and sat on
 19 Labam |     Raja's son went back to the old woman's house. He was very
 20 Punch |        s son was fourteen years old, Then, one day, his aunts
 21 Punch |         in the air, and the two old eagles, who had been out
 22 Punch |       standing over it; and the old mother eagle said to him, "
 23 Punch |     then the Prince said to the old eagles, "Take back your
 24 Punch |     Magician said, "If it is an old favourite, I can understand
 25 Broken|      him Somasarman. When he is old enough to be danced on his
 26 Magic |       and substituted their own old one for it. When the Jogi
 27 Crane |         Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the
 28 Laili |         Laili.~She was now very old. Twelve years she had wandered
 29 Laili |      said to Prince Majnun, "An old woman outside says she wants
 30 Laili |      become once more a hideous old woman, with a long, long
 31 Laili |        like tusks; just such an old woman, excepting her teeth,
 32 Laili |      King Dantal was now a very old man, and Husain Mahamat,
 33 Laili |    though he was really only as old as Prince Majnun, looked
 34 Laili |       being so frightened by an old ayah or a fakir! And if
 35 Laili |       searched for the terrible old woman, but found nothing,
 36 Laili |      stead there lay the little old woman who had frightened
 37 Laili |       said, "How can I marry an old woman like you? how can
 38 Laili |      terror.~In the morning the old woman had turned into the
 39 Laili |      all that had happened. "An old woman! an old woman! always
 40 Laili |     happened. "An old woman! an old woman! always an old woman!"
 41 Laili |         an old woman! always an old woman!" said his father. "
 42 Laili |         do nothing but think of old women. How can a strong
 43 Laili |     that he really believed the old woman would come back at
 44 Laili |         How can I marry such an old woman as you are?"~That
 45 Laili |     trembling in bed the little old woman lay there in place
 46 Laili |      who told him to do all the old woman had bidden him. In
 47 Tiger |      the goldsmith. At once the old recollections rushed into
 48 Ring  |          who was an ogress. The old woman consented to help
 49 Ring  |         whom she appeared as an old hag, holding in one hand
 50 Rupees|        somehow or other for the old people during the few months
 51 Rupees|     back to starve and see your old father and mother die. There
 52 Rupees|        sent the dog back to its old master with a letter rolled
 53 Rupees|   affectionately greeted by his old parents; and he laid his
 54 Queens|    happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King,
 55 Queens|        for a drink of water. An old woman, seated in the hut
 56 Kings |       when he was sixteen years old, went to Takkasila, and
 57 Kings |        a way. I'll find out how old he is, and then I'll let '
 58 Raja  |          and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless
 59 Raja  |     stopping at the house of an old woman in the city, till
 60 Raja  |      Prince! trust me now as of old.~I'll carry you far from
 61 Money |      farmer; "that would be the old business all over again!"~"
 62 Boy   |      The boy was now six months old. When Shankar had caressed
 63 Boy   |        the child was now a year old); and caressed and petted
 64 Boy   |    passed, and he was two years old, the cow went out to the
 65 Boy   |       child was now three years old.~But this time the cowherd
 66 Boy   |          who was now four years old. After be had played for
 67 Boy   |     when the boy was five years old, Katar brought him up again,
 68 Boy   |      must come - men and women, old and young, rich and poor,
 69 Fish  |         when he fell in with an old farmer, who also was on
 70 Fish  |    certain village. Finding the old man very pleasant, he asked
 71 Fish  |    visit to the same place. The old farmer agreed, and they
 72 Fish  |        the man is!" thought the old farmer.~Presently they passed
 73 Fish  |  understanding his meaning, the old man replied, "I don't know."~
 74 Fish  |       it is very precious."~The old man, looking half amused
 75 Fish  |  distance outside which Was the old farmer's house. They walked
 76 Fish  |         man mean," thought 'the old farmer, "calling this largely
 77 Fish  |       be demented!" thought the old farmer. "I wonder what he
 78 Fish  |         was rather deep, so the old farmer took off his shoes
 79 Fish  |     word and in deed," said the old man to, himself.~However,
 80 Fish  |      your house is strong."~The old farmer left him in despair,
 81 Fish  |     young man appeared with the old farmer. Great attention
 82 Fish  |     satisfied, and the faithful old vizier saved.~Afterwards,
 83 Fish  |        vizier's son married the old farmer's daughter and a
 84 Ivory |         hut that belonged to an old woman, from whom they feared
 85 Ivory |       and comfort. At first the old woman did not like the idea
 86 Ivory |        as her work was over the old woman came and sat down
 87 Ivory |      city a name?" he asked the old woman.~"Of course it has,
 88 Ivory |    vizier's son interrupted the old woman by turning to look
 89 Ivory |      two travellers noticed the old woman's most careful toilette:
 90 Ivory |     vizier's son.~"Nobody," the old woman replied.~"Then where
 91 Ivory |          Because, my dear," the old woman answered, "two young
 92 Ivory |        evening."~After this the old woman went and repeated
 93 Ivory |        In the evening, when the old woman had returned to her
 94 Ivory |        In this treatment of the old woman I see her request
 95 Ivory |    exclaimed.~The next time the old woman went to the palace
 96 Ivory |         was conversing with the old woman; and if the old woman
 97 Ivory |       the old woman; and if the old woman asked what was the
 98 Ivory |         servant obeyed, and the old woman, fearing lest the
 99 Ivory |        was brought she bade the old woman step into it and desire
100 Ivory |       desire to be at home. The old woman did so, and was at
101 Sons  |       were Duped~A VERY wealthy old man, imagining that he was
102 Sons  |        Besides the weariness of old age, the old fellow had
103 Sons  |       weariness of old age, the old fellow had to bear with
104 Sons  |  expense. And they let the poor old man know what they felt.~
105 Sons  |         few days he visited the old man and put down four bags
106 Sons  |    continued to the day of the, old man's demise, when the bags
107 GeNote|     more than a thousand years. old. It is certain that much (
108 GeNote|         1868, under the title, "Old Deccan Days, or, Indian
109 GeNote|       Tales and in Miss Frere's Old Deccan Days (see Notes on
110 StNote| PUNCHKIN,~Source. - Miss Frere, Old Deccan Days, pp. 1 - 16,
111 StNote|         itself derived from the old Syriac version of a Pehlevi
112 StNote|         Tale of Ivan," from the old Cornish, now extinct, and
113 StNote|     WIND.~Source. - Miss Frere, Old Deccan Days, No. 10, pp.
114 StNote|         on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after