THE
TOOTI NAMEH,
OR
TALES OF A PARROT
CONTENTS.
		Page
Title Page
Advertisement		ix
Preface		9
Tale I.	Of the Birth of Miemun; and of Khojisteh falling in love	10
II.	The Fidelity of a Sentinel towards the King of Teberistan	25
III.	The Goldsmith and the Carpenter; and the Theft and Concealment of the Golden Images	35
IV.	The Nobleman, and the Soldier's Wife, whose Virtue he put to the proof	41
V.	The Goldsmith, the Carpenter, the Taylor, and the Hermit, who quarrelled about a Wooden Woman	49
VI.	The King of Kinoge and his Daughter, with whom a Dirveish became enamoured	54
VII.	The Fowler, the Parrot, and her young ones,	58
VIII.	The Merchant, and his Wife, who outwitted him	62
IX.	The Shopkeeper's Wife, who, having an Amour with a Person, confounded her Father-in-law	65
X.	The Merchant's Daughter and the Jackal	69
XI.	The Lion, and the Brahmin, who, on account of his Avarice, lost his Life	73
XII.	The old Lion, and the Cat, who, having killed the Mice, was turned out of office,	76
XIII.	Of Shapoor, Commander of the Frogs, and the Snake	80
XIV.	A Lion whom a Syagosh dispossessed of his Dwelling	84
XV.	Zereer the Weaver, whom Fortune would not befriend	89
XVI.	Four Rich Persons who became Poor	92
XVII.	How the Jackal was made King, and then killed	95
XVIII.	Of the Intimacy of Besheer with a Woman named Chundar	98
XIX.	The Merchant, and how a Person's Mare was killed	102
XX.	The Woman who by a Stratagem escaped out of the Lion's clutches	105
XXI.	Of a King and his Sons, and of a Frog and a Snake	108
XXII.	The Merchant whose Daughter was lost	113
XXIII.	Of a Brahmin falling in love with the King of Babylon's Daughter	117
XXIV.	How the Son of the King of Babylon fell in love with a young Woman	122
XXV.	Of a Woman, who, having gone to buy Sugar, had an Amour with a Grocer	126
XXVI.	The Merchant's Daughter, whom the King rejected	129
XXVII.	The Potter, who is taken into the Service of a King, and made General of his Army	134
XXVIII.	The Lion and his Whelps, and how he fostered a young Jackal	137
XXIX.	The Nobleman who concealed a Snake in his Sleeve	140
XXX.	The Soldier and the Goldsmith, the latter of whom lost his Life from the Love of Money	144
XXXI.	Of the Merchant and the Barber's beating the Brahmins	148
XXXII.	The Frog, the Bee, and the Bird, who killed the Elephant	151
XXXIII.	The Emperor of China, in a Dream, falls in love with the Queen of Room	155
XXXIV.	The Elk and the Ass, who are both taken prisoners	161
XXXV.	A King falls in love.—Khojisteh is put to death by the hands of Miemun	164