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From Fables & Folk-Tales from an Eastern Forest, Collected and Translated by Walter Skeat, M.A., Illustrated by F. H. Townsend; Cambridge: At the University Press; 1901; pp. i-x.

Fables and Folk-Tales
from an Eastern Forest.

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London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
AVE MARIA LANE.
Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.

Leipzig: F. AM. BROCKHAUS.
New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Bombay: E. SEYMOUR HALE.

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I.  Rice-fields at the foot of Būkit Perak or Peraķ (i.e. Silver) Mountain, in the interior of Kedah, Malay Peninsula.

Fables & Folk-Tales
from an eastern Forest

Collected and Translated by

WALTER SKEAT, M.A., M.R.A.S., F.A.I.,

Sometime Scholar of Christ’s College, Cambridge,
late of the Federated Malay States Service,
Author of “Malay Magic.”

Illustrated by

F. H. TOWNSEND.

CAMBRIDGE:
At the University Press.
1901.

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Cambridge:
PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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To
my Friend and Fellow-worker

RICHARD JAMES WILKINSON.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE OR PAGE NUMBER, AND YOU WILL GO TO THAT CHAPTER, IN A NEW BROWSER WINDOW.

PAGE

I.         Father Lime-stick and the Flower-pecker  1

II.        The King of the Tigers is sick  3

III.       The Mouse-deer’s shipwreck  5

IV.        Who killed the Otter’s Babies? (A ‘clock’
                           story)  9

V.          A Vegetarian Dispute  13

VI.         The Friendship of Tūpai the Squirrel and
                           Rūan the Creeping Fish  16

VII.        The Pelican’s Punishment  18

VIII.       The Tiger gets his deserts  20

IX.          The Tiger’s mistake  22

X.            The Tune that makes the Tiger drowsy  24

XI.          The “Tigers’ Fold”  26

XII.        The Tiger and the Shadow  28

XIII.       Wit wins the day  30

XIV.        The King-crow and the Water-snail  33

XV.          Father ‘Follow-my-nose’ and the Four Priests  36

XVI.        The Elephant-Princess and the Prince  38

XVII.       The Elephant has a bet with the Tiger  41

XVIII.      Princess Sādong of the Caves  49

XIX.         The Saint that was shot out of his own Cannon  52

XX.           The Saints whose Grave-stones moved  54

XXI.          Nakhōda Rágam who was pricked to death
                           by his wife’s needle  57

XXII.        The Legend of Patāni  59

XXIII.       A Malayan Deluge  62

XXIV.        King Solomon and the Birds  64

XXV.         The Outwitting of the Gĕdembai  67

XXVI.        The Silver Prince, and Princess Lemon-grass  71

NOTES         73

INDEX         87

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CLICK ON THE PICTURE DESCRIPTION OR PAGE NUMBER, AND YOU WILL GO TO THAT CHAPTER, IN A NEW BROWSER WINDOW.

I.         Rice-fields at the foot of Būkit Perak or Peraķ
                           (i.e. Silver) Mountain, in the interior of
                           Kedah, Malay Peninsula  Frontispiece

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II.        “But presently he dragged the Shark up on
                           to the dry beach, and made butcher’s-meat
                           of him.”  6

III.        “Presently the Otter returned home,” . . . and
                           “saw that his children had been killed.”  10

IV.        “And presently he looked out and bit through
                           the stalk of the coconut so that it fell into
                           the river.”   16

V.           “On reaching the trap, he requested the Tiger
                           to ‘Step inside’.”  20

VI.         “Rímau being startled leaped backwards and
                           fell into the river, where he was himself
                           devoured by the Crocodile according to
                           his compact.”  22

VII.        “On hearing this, the Tiger sprang into the
                           river to attack his own shadow, and was
                           drowned immediately.”   28

VIII.       “The Bull of the Young Bush was slain by
                           the Bull of the Clearing, the Mouse-deer
                           sitting upon an ant-hill to excite them to
                           the combat.”  30

IX.          “And Friend Elephant writhed and wriggled
                           and made believe to be hurt, and made a
                           prodigious noise of trumpeting.”   46

X.            MAP OF MALAY PENINSULA  86

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N.B.         The Tail-pieces represent respectively Small Lizards,
                the Tiger, Mouse-deer, Otter, Tortoise, Monitor Lizard,
                Wild Bull, Monkey, and Elephant.

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