These tales have been collected from all places, and all sorts of people, from priests in the Chubára, from Ala Yar the carver, Jiwun Singh the carpenter, nameless men on steamers and trains round the world, women spinning outside their cottages in the twilight, officers and gentlemen now dead and buried, and a few, but these are the very best, my father gave me. The greater part of them have been published in magazines and newspapers, to whose editors I am indebted; but some are new on this side of the water, and some have not seen the light before.

The most remarkable stories are, of course, those which do not appear—for obvious reasons.

CONTENTS

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DRAY WARA YOW DEE[1]
NAMGAY DOOLA[17]
“THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT”[35]
THE JUDGMENT OF DUNGARA[46]
THE FINANCES OF THE GODS[60]
AT HOWLI THANA[67]
IN FLOOD TIME[75]
MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER[90]
WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY[101]
NABOTH[139]
THE SENDING OF DANA DA[145]
THROUGH THE FIRE[161]
THE HEAD OF THE DISTRICT[168]
THE AMIR’S HOMILY[204]
AT TWENTY-TWO[210]
JEWS IN SHUSHAN[227]
GEORGIE PORGIE[233]
LITTLE TOBRAH[247]
GEMINI[252]
THE LIMITATIONS OF PAMBÉ SERANG[266]
ONE VIEW OF THE QUESTION[274]
FROM “MANY INVENTIONS.”
ON THE CITY WALL[302]
THE ENLIGHTENMENTS OF PAGETT, M. P.[340]

ILLUSTRATIONS

ON THE CITY WALLFRONTISPIECE
THE JUDGMENT OF DUNGARAPAGE [52]
THE SENDING OF DANA DA[158]

IN BLACK AND WHITE

DRAY WARA YOW DEE

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.—Prov. vi. 34.