," said the Judge, looking
at the Crow 153
Tailpiece 155

PRIDE SHALL HAVE A FALL:
Initial 156
Tailpiece 159

THE KID AND THE TIGER:
Initial 160

THE STAG, THE CROW, AND THE JACKAL:
Initial 166
Tailpiece 169

THE MONKEY AND THE CROWS:
"O Monkey, what a fool you must be!" 171
Tailpiece 172

THE SWAN AND THE PADDY-BIRD:
Initial 173
Tailpiece 175

WHAT IS A MAN:
"He espied an Elephant" 178
"I am a Man," said the other 180

THE WOUND AND THE SCAR:
Initial 182
Tailpiece 185

THE CAT AND THE PARROT:
"The Cat said to the Parrot, Come,
friend" 187
"An old woman happened to be near" 191

FINIS 218

The Talking Thrush

A CERTAIN man had a garden, and in his garden he sowed cotton seeds.
By-and-by the cotton seeds grew up into a cotton bush, with big brown
pods upon it. These pods burst open when they are ripe; and you can see
the fluffy white cotton bulging all white out of the pods. There was a
Thrush in this garden, and the Thrush thought within herself how nice
and soft the cotton looked. She plucked out some of it to line her nest
with; and never before was her sleep so soft as it was on that bed of
cotton.

Now this Thrush had a clever head; so she thought something more might
be done with cotton besides lining a nest. In her flights abroad she
used often to pass by the door of a Cotton-carder. The Cotton-carder had
a thing like a bow, made of a piece of wood, and a thong of leather
tying the ends together into a curve. He used to take the cotton, and
pile it in a heap; then he took the carding-bow, and twang-twang-twanged
it among the heap of cotton, so that the fibres or threads of it became
disentangled. Then he rolled it up into oblong balls, and sold it to
other people, who made it into thread.

The Thrush often watched the Cotton-carder at work. Every day after
dinner, she went to the cotton tree, and plucked out a fluff