CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Story of Caliph Stork | [9] |
| Fatima’s Rescue | [28] |
| The Story of Little Mouk | [57] |
| The Story of the False Prince | [87] |
| The Dwarf Long-Nose | [111] |
| Abner, the Jew who Saw Nothing | [153] |
| The Story of Almansor | [160] |
| The Story of the Florin | [181] |
| The Cold Heart | [207] |
| The Adventures of Said | [276] |
| The Cavern of Steenfoll: a Scottish Legend | [327] |
LIST OF FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
| COLOUR | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The Tailor’s Heart swelled with Pride and Joy | [Frontispiece] |
| He Decided to Follow Them | [62] |
| An Old Woman came slowly across the Market-Place | [112] |
| She stood Leaning upon her Staff waiting for Cuno | [196] |
| Charcoal Peter and the Glass-man | [232] |
| It had turned into an Enormous Dolphin | [316] |
| BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The Owl Warned them to be as Silent as the Grave | [22] |
| He made for the Door Screaming lustily for Help | [40] |
| He had unearthed a Pot full of Golden Coins | [72] |
| Choosing the Caskets | [104] |
| They told each other their Sad Stories | [140] |
| They ran Here and There in Wild Disorder | [154] |
| The Slave held an Enormous Dictionary | [168] |
| Faster and Faster they Went | [184] |
| “This,” thought he, “must surely be the Abode of the Glass-man” | [214] |
| She saw a Little Old Man coming along | [258] |
| He saw a Little Man bending over him | [292] |
| “I Came to Look for the Carmilhan,” he said | [332] |
THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK.
CHAPTER I.
CHASID, Caliph of Bagdad, was taking his ease one beautiful afternoon, stretched out upon his couch. He had just awakened from a little nap and was in a pleasant mood. From time to time he drank from the cup of coffee one of his slaves handed to him, and took long whiffs from a rosewood pipe, stroking his long beard the while, with an air of extreme complacency. In short, it was evident that the Caliph was in a very good humour.