Hindu Fables For Little Children
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Mukerji, Dhan Gopal
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1929
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There is already a copy of the fourth printing in the collection. Here is a copy of the third printing with a different texture -- a cloth that is almost cordury -- for its covers. I found this copy (which once belonged to the Lincoln Public Library) and read it in an evening on a road-trip after a year of trying to get to the first copy. It is in only fair condition. As I wrote of the fourth printing, there are here ten stories remembered from a childhood in India, with ten full-page illustrations with blank backs. Four stories use standard fable material: Bunny the Brave (9) has a tiger, not a lion, brought by the rabbit to the well. How a Single Bunny Overcame a Herd of Elephants (39) has a clever rabbit acting as the moon's voice to command a herd of elephants away from the rabbits' pool. Monkey Vanaraj (58) is the standard I left my heart at home story, but this version ends with the baboon and the two crocodiles becoming friends! Bunny the Brave Saves Brahmin the Priest (89) is the standard story about getting the tiger back into the cage. Two stories are well known Jatakas stories on generosity: Bunny in the Moon (30) and Pigeons of Paradise (69) both involve the same motif of giving oneself as food to another. Monkey and Gun (3) has to be recent in this long tradition; it is quite pointed.
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E.P. Dutton
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8142 (Access ID)