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  2. Foreword
  3. Publisher's Note
  4. I. The Monkey and the Crocodile
  5. II. How the Turtle Saved His Own Life
  6. III. The Merchant of Seri
  7. IV. The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking
  8. V. The Ox Who Won the Forfeit
  9. VI. The Sandy Road
  10. VII. The Quarrel of the Quails
  11. VIII. The Measure of Rice
  12. IX. The Foolish, Timid Rabbit
  13. X. The Wise and the Foolish Merchant
  14. XI. The Elephant Girly-Face
  15. XII. The Banyan Deer
  16. XIII. The Princes and the Water-Sprite
  17. XIV. The King's White Elephant
  18. XV. The Ox Who Envied the Pig
  19. XVI. Grannie's Blackie
  20. XVII. The Crab and the Crane
  21. XVIII. Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds
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JATAKA TALES

Re-Told by

Ellen C. Babbitt

With illustrations by

Ellsworth Young

New York

The Century Co.

1912

Scanned by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com. Additional formatting by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, March, 2004. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

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