Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) VILLAGE FOLK-TALES OF CEYLON Vol. I Collected and Translated by H. PARKER Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon LONDON LUZAC & CO Publishers to the India Office 1910 CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 1 PART I. STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDAS. NO. 1 The Making of the Great Earth 47 2 The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy 52 3 The Story of Senasura 54 4 The Glass Princess 57 5 The Frog Prince 67 6 The Millet Trader 72 7 The Turtle Dove 79 8 The Prince and the Princess 93 9 Tamarind Tikka 100 10 Matalange Loku-Appu 108 …
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