• Abbas the Great, 107.
• Abraham: jealous of his wives, 197;
  • arrival in Egypt, 197;
  • his servant in Sodom, 202;
  • Ishmael’s wives, 203;
  • the ‘ram caught in a thicket,’ 205;
  • the idols, 251.
• Abstinence, advantages of, 20.
• Acrostic in the Bible, [93].
• Adam and Eve, 191, 267, 268.
• Addison’s Spectator, 359.
• Advice to a conceited man, 44;
  • gratuitous, 261.
• Aesop—see Esop.
• Affenschwanz, etc., [59].
• Aino Folk-Tales, 312.
• Akhlák-i Jalaly, 23, [99].
• Aladdin’s Lamp, [49].
• Alakésa Kathá, [52].
• Alexander the Great, 253, 254.
• Alfonsus, Petrus, 99, [36], 227, 231, [90].
• Alfred the Great, 315.
• Ali, Mrs. Meer Hassan, 270.
• Ambition, vanity of, 254.
• Amír Khusrú, 18.
• Ancestry, pride of, 22.
• Androgynous nature of Adam, 191, [58].
• Ant and Nightingale, 41.
• Antar, the Arabian poet-hero, 46.
• Anthologia, 259.
• Anwarí, the Persian poet, 106.
• Aphorisms of Saádí, 7, 41, 44, [42];
  • of the Jewish Fathers, 260.
• Apparition, the golden, 136.
• Arab and his camel, 82.
• Arab Sháh, 87.
• Arabian lovers, 283, 294.
• Arabian Nights, [33], 123, 178, 196, 212.
• Archery feat, 20.
• Arienti, [66].
• Ashaab the covetous, 93.
• Ass, the singing, 149.
• Astrologer’s faithless wife, 36.
• Attár, Farídu ’d-Dín, 51.
• Athenæus, [103].
• Athenians and Jewish boys, 117, 118.
• Auvaiyár, Tamil poetess, [7], [8], [9], [16].
• Avarice, 44.
• Avianus, [15].
• Aymon, Four Sons of, 317.

• Babrius, 300.
• Babylonian tale, [71].
• Bacon on aphorisms, 259.
• Baghdádí, witty, 83.
• Baháristán, [19], 48, 63, 109.
• Bakhtyár Náma, 124, 172.
• Barbary Tales, [75].
• Barbazan’s Fabliaux, [155], [156].
• Baring-Gould, 142, [58], [61].
• Barlaam and Joasaph, [91], [92].
• Basset’s Tales of Barbary, [75].
• Basket made into a door, 318.
• Bayazíd and the old woman, [131].
• Beal, Samuel, 147.
• Beards: Asiatics’, 338;
  • Ballad of the Beard, 355;
  • Barnes in defence of the Beard, 356;
  • Britons’ and Normans’, 344;
  • Coverley (Sir Roger de), on his ancestors’, 359;
  • dedicated to deities, 339;
  • dyeing the beard, 349;
  • famous beards, 344, 346;
  • French kings’, 346;
  • Greeks’, 338;
  • Monks’, 343;
  • Pope Julius II, 341;
  • pledged for loans, 342;
  • pulling beard, 343;
  • reformers’, 344;
  • Roman youths’, 337;
  • Sully’s beard, 341;
  • shapes of, 350, 351, 352, 355;
  • taxes on, 345;
  • tokens of wisdom, 338, [158];
  • Turkish sultans’, 339;
  • vowing not to cut or shave, 342, 347;
  • witches’, 358;
  • women, bearded, 358.
• Beast-fables, origin of, 239, 299.
• Beaumont, bp. of Durham, 318.
• Beauty unadorned, 46.
• Beggar and Khoja, 68.
• Bendall, Cecil, 159.
• Beneficence, 24, 44, 48.
• Bérenger-Féraud, 278.
• Berkeley’s ‘ideal’ theory, 97.
• Beryn, Tale of, 212, [133].
• Bhartrihari, 258.
• Bible, 191, 193, 205, 207, 229, 231, 239, 240, 249, 251, 254, 257, [97], 270, [153], 331, 332.
• Bidpaï’s Fables, 39.
• Birth, pride of, 22.
• Bishop and ignorant priest, 316;
  • and the simple youth, 317.
• ‘Bi’smi’llahi,’ etc., [24].
• Bi-sexual nature of Adam, 191.
• Blémont, Emile, 274.
• Blind man’s wife, 62.
• Blockheads, list of, 80.
• Boccaccio’s Decameron, [31], [75], 231.
• Bœthius’ Consol. Phil., [45].
• Bonaventure des Periers, [31], 323, 325.
• Borde, Andrew, 356, [166].
• Boy in terror at sea, 22.
• Bride and Bridegroom, 250.
• Bromyard, John, [132].
• Broth, Hot, 69.
• Buddha, Rom. Hist, of, 147.
• Buddha’s Dhammapada, [97].
• Buddhaghosha’s Parables, 163, [97].
• Burns, the Scottish poet, [104], [105].
• Butler’s Hudibras, etc., 332, 345, 346.
• Burton, Sir R. F., [11], 274.
• Buthayna and Jamíl, 294.
• Buzurjmihr on silence, 38.

• Cabinet des Fées, [49].
• Cain and Abel, 194.
• Camel and cat, 82.
• Capon-carver, 231, 276.
• Cardonne’s Mél. de Littèrature Orientale, 83.
• Carlyle, Thos., 60, [109].
• Cat and its master, 80.
• Cauldron, the, 67.
• Caution with friends, 46, 263.
• Caxton’s Dictes, 38;
  • Esop’s Fables, [129], [135], [158].
• Caylus, Comte de, [49].
• Cento Novelle Antiche, 231.
• Chamberlain, B. H., 312.
• Chaste Wives, Value of, 127.
• Chaucer, 196, 279, 339.
• Chess, game of, 240.
• Chinese Humour: rich man and smiths, 77;
  • to keep plants alive, 78;
  • criticising a portrait, 78.
• Clergy, Benefit of, 329.
• Clouston’s Analogues of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 279;
  • Book of Noodles, [26], 111;
  • Book of Sindibád, 280;
  • Eastern Romances, [52], [112], 279;
  • Popular Tales and Fictions, [49], 157, 178, 279.
• Coleridge, the poet, 229, 264.
• Comparetti, Prof., [85].
• Conceited man, 44.
• Conde Lucanor, [30], [91].
• Condolence, house of, 62.
• Conjugal quarrels, 262.
• Contes Orientaux, [49].
• Cooks, too many, 262.
• ‘Corpus meum,’ 320.
• Cotton’s Virgil Travestie, 332.
• Courtier and old friend, 79.
• Coverley, Sir Roger de, 359.
• Covetous man, 93;
  • goldsmith, 128, 160.
• Covetousness, 45.
• Crane’s Italian Tales, [37], [85], 279.
• Cup-bearer and Saádí, 28.
• Cypress, 284.

• Dabistán, 97, [35].
• Daulat Sháh, 294.
• David, legends of King, 213.
• Davidson, Thos., [127].
• Deaf men, 73, 75.
• Death, rest to the poor, 51.
• Decameron, [31], [75].
• Deluge, [80].
• Demon, Tales of a, 124, 162, 179.
• Dervish and magic candlestick, 141.
• Dervish who became king, 32.
• Dervishes, Three, 113.
• Desolate Island, 243, 279.
• Des Periers, Bonaventure, [31], 323, 325.
• Devotee and learned man, 40.
• Dictes, or the sayings of philosophers, 38.
• Disciplina Clericalis, 99, 100, 227, 231, [90].
• Domestics, lazy, 76.
• Don Quixote, 11, 99.
• Dreams of fair women, 133, 134.
• Drinking the sea dry, 312.
• Drunken governor, 68.
• Dublin ballad-singer, [71].
• Dutiful son, 236.

• Eastern story-books, general plan of, 123.
• Eberhard’s ed. of Planudes’ Life of Esop, [130].
• Education, advantages of, 27.
• Egg-stealer and Solomon, [75].
• Eliezer in Sodom, 202.
• Eliot, George, [17].
• Ellis’ Metrical Romances, [36].
• Emperor’s dream, 134.
• Esop: unlucky omens, [38];
  • wise saying of, 264;
  • apocryphal Life, by Planudes, 301;
  • Jacobs on the Esopic Fable, [129];
  • the figs, 302;
  • how Esop became eloquent, 303;
  • his choice of load, 303;
  • offered for sale, 304;
  • boiling peas, 304;
  • the missing pig’s foot, 305;
  • dish of tongues, 305;
  • the man who was no busy-body, 306;
  • drinking the sea dry, 306, 312;
  • the dog’s tail, 306;
  • as ambassador, 307;
  • his death, 307;
  • Henryson’s description of Esop, 309.
• Etienne de Bourbon, [132].
• Etienne, Henri, 316.
• Eulenspiegel, Tyl, [133].
• Expectation, 7.

• Fabliaux, [34], [37], 327, 328.
• Fables, origin of, 239, 300.
• Facetiæ, Jewish, 117.
• Faggot-maker, 152.
• Fairholt, F. W., 355.
• Fairies’ gifts, 153, 157, 181.
• Fate, decrees of, 99.
• Faults, 7, 44, 262.
• Féraud, Bérenger, 278.
• Firdausí, 50, [117].
• Fitnet Khánim, Turkish poetess, 17.
• Flood, 225.
• Flowers, hymn to the, 54.
• Folk-Lore of S. India, 73.
• Fool, greatest, 279.
• Fools, list of, 80.
• Foolish peasants, 111;
  • thieves, 151.
• Forbidden tree, 268.
• Forman, bp. of Moray, 319.
• Fortitude and liberality, 24.
• Fortune capricious, 45.
• Forty, the number, [112].
• Forty Vezírs, History of, 65, 110, [45].
• Fox and Bear, 240, 278;
  • Fox in the garden, 241.
• Friends: caution with, 46, 263;
  • man with three, 247;
  • misfortunes of, 23.
• Fryer’s Eng. Fairy Tales, [39].
• Fuller’s Church History, [152].
• Furnivall, F. J., [166].

• Garments, the, 248.
• Garrick and Dr. Johnson, 52.
• Gemara, authors of the, 186.
• Generosity, 24, 44, 48.
• Gerrans, [41], 126, 136.
• Gesta Romanorum, 187, [63], 227, 231, 279, [133].
• Gibb, E. J. W., 15, 110, [45], 283.
• Gisli the Outlaw, [25].
• Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee, 71.
• Goat, the dead, 71.
• God, a jealous God, 264.
• God, for the sake of, 9.
• Good or evil genius, 140, 141.
• ‘God, the merciful,’ etc., [24].
• Golden apparition, 136.
• Goldsmith, the covetous, 128, 160.
• Goliath’s brother, 213.
• Goose, Tales of a, 124.
• Goose-thief, [75].
• Gospels, two, for a groat, 320.
• Governor and the Khoja, 68;
  • and the poor poet, 104;
  • and the shopkeeper, [39].
• Gratitude for benefits, 262.
• Great Name, 214.
• Greek Popular Tales, 276.
• Grey, Zachary, 332.
• Grief and anger, times of, 260.
• Grissell, Patient, 331.
• Gulistán, or rose-garden, 9.

• Hafíz, the Persian poet, [125].
• Hagiolatry, 321, 327.
• Hamsa Vinsati, 124.
• Harírí, the Arabian poet, [70].
• Harrison on beards, 350.
• Hartland, E. Sidney, 181.
• Hátim Taï, 24.
• Hazár ú Yek Rúz, [33].
• Hebrew facetiæ, 117.
• Henryson, Robert, 309.
• Heptameron, [31].
• Herrick’s Hesperides, [23].
• Herodotus, Apology for, 316.
• Herrtage, S. J., [63].
• Hershon’s Talmudic Miscel., 191.
• Hesiod’s fables, [87].
• Hitopadesa, 140, 240.
• Horse-dealers and the king, 81.
• Hudibras, etc., 332, 345, 346.
• Hundred Mery Talys, [27], [150], 320.
• Hurwitz, Hyman, 117, [56], 218, [95].

• ’Idda: compulsory widowhood, 287.
• Ideal, not the real, 97.
• Idleness and industry, 41, 261.
• Ignorance, 262.
• Ill news, breaking, 95;
  • telling, 45.
• Images, the stolen, 128.
• Indian poetess, [7], [8], [9], [16].
• Inferiors and superiors, 260.
• Ingratitude, 47.
• Intolerance, religious, 188, 190.
• Investment, safe, 228.
• Irving, David, [136].
• Isfahání and the governor, 116.
• Ishmael’s wives, 203.
• Island, Desolate, 243, 279.
• Israel likened to a bride, 250.
• Italian Tales, [37], [39], [66], 231, [85], 279, [133].

• Jacob’s sorrow, 208.
• Jacobs, Joseph, on the Esopic Fables, [129], [135].
• Jámí, 40, [19], 63, 109.
• Jamíl and Buthayna, 294.
• ‘January and May,’ 29.
• Jehennan, 145.
• Jehoshua, Rabbi, 205.
• Jehudah, Rabbi, 186.
• Jests, antiquity of, 60.
• Jewels, the, 229;
  • luminous, 196.
• Jewish facetiæ, 117
• Jochonan, Rabbi, 186;
  • and the poor woman, 227.
• Johnson and Garrick, 52.
• Johnson, Dr., on springtide, 14.
• Jones, Sir William, [5].
• Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, 205;
  • and his brethren, 206.
• Josephus on Solomon’s fables, 239.
• Jotham’s fable, 239.
• Julien, Stanislas, 77.

• Kádirí’s Tútí Náma, [41].
• Kah-gyur, 159.
• Kalíla wa Dimna, 39.
• Kalidása, [117].
• Káma Sutra, 126.
• Kámarupa, 133.
• Káshifí, [11].
• Kashmírí Folk-Tales, 111, [40].
• Kathá Manjarí, [28], 100, 175.
• Kathá Sarit Ságara, 157, 163, 179.
• Khalíf and poet, 101, 105.
• Khizar and the Water of Life, 177.
• Khoja Nasr-ed-Dín, 65, 70.
• King and his Four Ministers, [52];
  • and the horse-dealers, 81;
  • and the Seven Vazírs, 173;
  • and the story-teller, 99, 100;
  • who died of love, 161.
• Knowles, J. H., 111, [40].
• Kurán, 65.

• Ladies, witty Persian, 63.
• Laing, David, [136].
• La Fontaine, 278.
• Landsberger on Fables, 239.
• Langlès (not Lescallier), [33].
• La Rochefoucauld, 23.
• Lappländische Märchen, 181.
• Laughter, 59, 60.
• Laylá and Majnún, 283.
• Lazy servants, 76.
• Learned man and blockhead, 49;
  • youth, modesty of, 27.
• Learning the best treasure, [9];
  • and virtue, 47.
• Le Grand’s Fabliaux, [34], [155], [156].
• Legrand’s Popular Greek Tales, 276.
• Lescallier, 173—see also Langlès.
• Liars, 261.
• Liber de Donis, [132].
• Liberality to the poor, 24, 44, 48,
• Liberality and fortitude, 24.
• Life, Tree of, 174;
  • Water of, 174, 177.
• Lions, tail of the, 263.
• Liwá’í, Persian poet, 95.
• Lokman, sayings of, 310.
• Luminous Jewels, 196.
• Love, dying for, 161, 163.
• Lovers, Arabian, 283, 294.

• Madden, Sir F., [63].
• Magic Bowl, etc., 153, 157, 181.
• Maiden and Saádí, 28.
• Maimonides, 186.
• Majnún and Laylá, 273.
• Makamat of El-Harírí, [70].
• Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia, 107, 116.
• Man, a laughing animal, 59;
  • and his three friends, 247;
  • and the place, 262;
  • the mighty man, 261.
• Manna, daily, 266.
• Manuel, Don Juan, [30].
• Marcus Aurelius, [20].
• Mare kicked by a horse, 132.
• Marelle, Charles, [59].
• Marguerite, queen of Navarre, [31], 323.
• Marie de France, [90].
• Massinger’s plays, 331.
• Mazarin, Cardinal, 52.
• Meir’s (Rabbi) fables, 240.
• Mélanges de Litt. Orient., 83.
• Merchant and lady, 87;
  • and poor Bedouin, 95.
• Merchandise, 262.
• Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres, [10], [28], [75], 321.
• Mesíhí’s ode on spring, 15.
• Metempsychosis, 179, 301.
• Mihra-i Iskandar, 18.
• Milton’s Paradise Lost, 270.
• Mind, the infant, 261.
• Miser, 262.
• Misers, Muslim, 71, 72.
• Mishlé Sandabar, 173.
• Misfortunes of friends, 23.
• Mishna, authors of the, 186.
• Mole on the face, 291.
• Money, in praise of, [42];
  • sound of two coins, 262.
• Monsters, unheard of, 224.
• Moon, a type of female beauty, [117].
• Moses and Pharaoh, 208;
  • height of Moses, 225;
  • Moses and the Poor Woodcutter, 270.
• Muezzin with harsh voice, 33.
• Muhammedan legends, [62], [68], [71], [75], [76], [77], [79], 268, 270.
• Mukhlis of Isfahán, 135.
• Music, discovery of, 163;
  • effects of, 7.
• Musician, bad, 7.
• Muslim confession of Faith, [24].

• Nakhshabí, 46, 124, [96].
• Name, the Great, 214.
• Nasr-ed-Dín, Khoja, 65.
• Natésa Sastrí, 73.
• Nathan of Babylon, 260.
• ‘Neck-verse,’ 331.
• Neighbour, objectionable, 37.
• ‘Night and Day,’ 61.
• Nightingale and Ant, 41;
  • and Rose, 42.
• Nimrod and Abraham, 253.
• Noah, 194, 196, 225, 270.
• Noble’s Orientalist, 141.
• ‘No rule without exception,’ 119.
• Numerals, Arabic, 240.
• Núshírván the Just, 21, 37.
• Nye, Philip, 346.

• Og, king of Bashan, 225, 226.
• Old man and young wife, 29.
• Old man’s prayer, 109;
  • reason for not marrying, 31.
• Old woman in mosque, 109.
• Omens, unlucky, 107, 108.
• Opportunity, 263.
• Oriental story-books, general plan of, 123.
• Orientalist, or Letters of a Rabbi, 141.
• Origin, all things return to their, 131.
• Ouseley, Sir Gore, 6, [22].

• Painter and critics, 78.
• Panchatantra, [20], [44], 140, 146, 147, 159, 240.
• Panjábí Legends, 179.
• Paradise, persons translated to, [71].
• Parents, reverence for, 236.
• Parrot and maina, 178;
  • oilman’s parrot, 114;
  • Moghul’s parrot, 116.
• Parrot-Book, 124;
  • frame-story of, 125, 178.
• Parrot, Seventy Tales of a, 124.
• Parrots in Hindú fictions, 179.
• Passion-service, 323, 326.
• Pasquil’s Jests, [30], 330.
• Patient Grissell, 331.
• ‘Paveant illi,’ etc., 319.
• Payne’s Arabian Nights, 274.
• Peasant in Paradise, 327.
• Peasants, Foolish, 111.
• Persian and his cat, 80;
  • and the governor, 116;
  • courtier and old friend, 79;
  • ladies, witty, 63;
  • Moonshee, 71;
  • poet and the impostor, 106;
  • Tales of a Thousand and one Days, [33], 135.
• Petis de la Croix, [33].
• Petronius Arbiter, [134].
• Phædrus, 300.
• Pharaoh and Moses, 208.
• Pharaoh’s daughters, 209.
• Pirke Aboth, 260.
• Plants, to keep alive, 78.
• Planudes’ Life of Esop, [38], 301.
• Poets in praise of springtide, 14.
• Poet, rich man and, 107.
• Poet’s meaning, 104.
• Poetry, ‘stealing,’ 106.
• Poets, royal gifts to, 101, 104, 105.
• Poverty, 263.
• Prayers, odd, 71, 109.
• Preachers, Muslim, 34, 66, 70, 71.
• Precept and Practice, 47, 263.
• Prefaces to books, 11.
• Priest confessing poor man, 325.
• Pride, 261.
• Princess of Rúm and her son, 166.
• Procrustes, bed of, [65].
• Prodigality, 24.
• Psalm-singing at gallows, 331.

• Quevedo’s Visions, 343.

• Rabbi and the poor woman, 227;
  • and the emperor Trajan, 265;
  • and the cup of wine, 119.
• Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, 141;
  • Tibetan Tales, 159.
• ‘Ram caught in a thicket,’ 205.
• Rasálú, Legend of Rájá, 178.
• Rats that ate iron, [44].
• Richardson, Octavia, [149].
• Rich, Barnaby, 350.
• Riches, 44, 50, 261.
• Rieu, Charles, [41].
• Robber and the Khoja, 69.
• Rogers, the poet, 359.
• Rose and Nightingale, 42.
• Ross, David, 278.
• Rúm, country of, [46].
• Russian Folk-Tales, 141.

• Saádí: sketch of his life, 3;
  • character of his writings, 6;
  • on a bad musician, 7;
  • his ‘Gulistán,’ 9;
  • prefaces to books, 11;
  • preface to the ‘Gulistán,’ 12;
  • the fair cup-bearer, 28;
  • assured of lasting fame, 55;
  • on money, 125.
• Sacchetti, 231, [133].
• Saint-worship, 321, 327.
• Samradians, sect of the, 97.
• Satan in form of a deer, 213.
• Satiety and hunger, 45.
• Sayce, A. H., [71].
• Scarronides, [157].
• Schoolmaster and wit, 79.
• Scornfulness, 260.
• Scott’s ‘Lay,’ 331.
• Scribe’s excuse, 79.
• Secrets, 48, 263.
• Seneca on aphorisms, 259.
• Senegambian Tales, 278.
• Sermon, burlesque, 328.
• Servant, wakeful, 112.
• Servants, lazy, 76.
• Seven stages of human life, 257.
• Seven Vazírs, 173
  • see also Sindibád, Book of.
• Seven Wise Masters, 133, 173, 178, [134].
• Shakspeare, 53, 163, 257, 342, 347, 349, 350.
• Sheba, Queen of, 218.
• Shelley’s Queen Mab, [126].
• Signing with ×, 333.
• Silence, on keeping, 38, 39, 45, 263.
• Simonides, [12].
• Sindibád, Book of, 123, 159, 173, 176, 178, 306.
• Singing Ass, 149.
• Sinhásana Dwatrinsati, 124.
• Shopkeeper and governor, 116.
• Sindbán, 173.
• ‘Skip over three leaves,’ 322.
• Slander, 44.
• Slave, witty, 35.
• Slippers, the unlucky, 83.
• Smith, Horace, 53.
• Smiths and rich man, 77.
• Socrates, 300, 338.
• Sodom, the citizens of, 198.
• Solomon: advice to three men, 215;
  • the Queen of Sheba, 218;
  • the egg-stealer, [75];
  • his signet-ring, 220;
  • his lost fables, 239;
  • his precocious sagacity, 73;
  • his choice of wisdom, 249;
  • the serpent’s prey, 274.
• Son, dutiful, 236.
• Sorrow, times of, 260.
• Spectator, Addison’s, 359.
• Spenser, Edmund, [117].
• Springtide, in praise of, 14.
• Stingy merchant and poor Bedouin, 95.
• Story-teller and the King, 100.
• Stubbes on beards and barbers, 352.
• Stupidity, 26.
• Súfís, [21].
• Suka Saptati, 124.
• Sully and the courtiers, 341.
• Summa Praedicantium, [132].
• Superiors and inferiors, 260.
• Swynnerton, Charles, [54].
• Syntipas, 173.

• Tales and Quicke Answeres, [10], [28], [75], 321.
• Talkers, comprehensive, [17].
• Talmud, authors of the, 185, 186;
  • traducers of the, 187;
  • teachings of the, 188.
• Tantrákhyána, 159.
• Taylor’s Wit and Mirth, 330;
  • Superbiae Flagellum, 351.
• Teaching and learning, 262.
• Temple’s Panjábí Legends, 179.
• Thálebí and the Khalíf, 105.
• Thief, self-convicted, [75];
  • without opportunity, 263.
• Thieves, Foolish, 151.
• Thomson’s Seasons, 46.
• Three Dervishes, 113.
• Throne, Tales of a, 124.
• Tibetan Tales, 159.
• Tongue, the key of wisdom, 46.
• Tongues, dish of, 305.
• ‘Tongues in Trees,’ 53.
• Trajan and the Rabbi, 265.
• Treasure, concealed, [44].
• Treasure-seekers, the Four, 144.
• Tree of Life, 174, 177.
• Trouvères, 327.
• Turkish Jester: in the pulpit, 66;
  • the cauldron, 67;
  • the beggar, 68;
  • the drunken governor, 68;
  • the robber, 69;
  • the hot broth, 69.
• Turkish poetess, 17.
• Turkmans, weeping, 110.
• Tútí Náma, 124;
  • frame story, 125, 178.
• Tyl Eulenspiegel, [133].

• Ugly wife, 61, 62.
• Uncle Remus, 279.
• Unicorn, 225.
• Unlucky omens, 107, 108.
• Unlucky slippers, 83.

• Van Butchell, 348.
• Vasayadatta, 133.
• Vase, use thy, 263.
• Vatsyayana’s Káma Sutra, 126.
• Vazírs, the Seven, 173.
• Vetála Panchavinsati, 124, 162, 179.
• Vicious hate the virtuous, 44.
• Vine, planting of the, 196.
• Virgil Travestie, 332.
• Virtue cannot come out of vice, 50.
• Visitors, troublesome, 40.
• Von Hammer, 293.
• Vrihat Kathá, 158.

• Wakeful servant, 112.
• Wamik and Azra, 293.
• Want: moderation, 7.
• Warton’s Hist. of Eng. Poetry, 163.
• Water of Life, 174, 177.
• Weil’s Bible, Korán, and Talmud, 273.
• Weeping Turkmans, 110.
• Wheel on man’s head, 146, 147.
• Wicked rich man, 44.
• Widowhood, compulsory, 287.
• Wife, choosing a, 263.
• Williams, Sir Monier, 259.
• Will, Ingenious, 237.
• Wisdom, who gains, 261.
• Wise man in mean company, 49.
• Witches’ beards, 358.
• Witty Baghdádí, 83;
  • Isfahání, 116;
  • Jewish boys, 117, 118;
  • Persian ladies, 63;
  • slave, 35.
• Woman: carved out of wood, 130;
  • seven requisites of, 165.
• Woman’s counsel, 64, 65;
  • wiles, 87.
• Women, bearded, 358.
• Woodcutter and Moses, 270.
• World of Wonders, [148].
• Wright’s Latin Stories, 76.

• Young’s Night Thoughts, 46.
• Youth, modest and learned, 27.

• Zemzem, 285.
• Zotenberg, Hermann, [91].
• Zozimus, the ballad-singer, [71].
• Zulaykhá, Potiphar’s wife, [68].