"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself" - Angela Carter
This is the first volume and consists of a collection of 20 Indian folk tales and fairy tales easy to read and very entertaining.
We hope that you will find the book fun to read and useful.
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In the evening, when the old woman had
returned to her hut, she told the vizier's son how sorry she was that she could
not help breaking her promise, and how the princess had struck her because she
mentioned their coming and all about them.
"Alas! Alas!" said the prince, who
had eagerly listened to every word. "What, then, will be her anger at the
sight of a man?"
"Anger?" said the vizier's son,
with an astonished air. "She would be exceedingly glad to see one man. I
know this. In this treatment of the old woman I see her request that you will
go and see her during the coming dark fortnight."
"Heaven be praised!" the prince
exclaimed.
The next time the old woman went to the palace Gulizar called one of her
servants and ordered her to rush into the room while she was conversing with
the old woman; and if the old woman asked what was the matter, she was to say
that the king's elephants had gone mad, and were rushing about the city and
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