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  The Sa'-Zada Tales

  BOOKS BY W. A. FRASER

  PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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  SA'-ZADA HAD GATHERED ALL HIS COMRADES ... FOR THEEVENING OF THE BIRD TALK ...

  (SEE PAGE 119.)]

  THESA'-ZADA TALES

  By W. A. FRASER

  _Illustrated by_ ARTHUR HEMING

  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS_NEW YORK ... MDCCCCV_

  _Copyright, 1905, by_CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  _Published September, 1905_

  J. F. TAPLEY CO.NEW YORK

  Contents

  PAGE

  INTRODUCTION ix

  THE WHITE, YELLOW, AND BLACK LEOPARD 3

  HATHI GANESH, THE WHITE-EARED ELEPHANT 39

  GIDAR, THE JACKAL, AND COYOTE, THE PRAIRIE WOLF 51

  RAJ BAGH, THE KING TIGER 65

  THE TRIBE OF KING COBRA 87

  THE STORY OF THE MONKEYS 103

  STORY OF BIRDS OF A FEATHER 119

  THE BUFFALO AND BISON 139

  UNT, THE CAMEL 155

  BIG TUSK, THE WILD BOAR 173

  OOHOO, THE WOLF, AND SHER ABI, THE CROCODILE 189

  SA'-ZADA, THE "ZOO" KEEPER 211

  Illustrations

  _From Drawings by Arthur Heming_

  PAGE

  Sa'-Zada had gathered all his comrades ... for the evening of the bird talk _Frontispiece_

  "The thing that had me by the paw was of a fiendish kind." 19

  "And away we dashed." 32

  "Then something strong grabbed me by the hind leg, and pulled me ..." 42

  "Two ruffianly Bulls ... fought me while the men slipped great strong ropes over my legs" 46

  "I heard my man say ... 'Strike me dead, if he hasn't ...'" 61

  "But I could see that there was something very wrong ..." 70

  "My sire ... sprang on a big Hathi's nose" 82

  "And Baba used to come every day under the bungalow to play" 90

  "I would stretch my body across it much after that fashion" 98

  "And they all clambered on to my back" 111

  "And sitting beside her, cried also, being but a little chap and all alone in the jungle" 112

  "And as he coughed, soap bubbles floated upward." 122

  "Leaving just a place for her sharp beak" 125

  "Something I could not see struck me most viciously in the shoulder" 146

  "Suddenly I heard a 'swisp' in the air, and my little curly-haired pet ..." 150

  "I remained in the _jhil_ until my master had lost the fierce Kill-look" 161

  "But some way I felt like doing my best" 166

  "It was at this time that Bagh killed so many of my people" 182

  "'Into the horse's legs,' the old Dame had said" 184

  "One could travel for days over the white snow" 190

  "'Let me in, Tom, I am Jack,' pleaded the Hunt man" 202

  "The grizzly ... bounced out not ten yards from the Cayuse" 220

  "Bhalu ... pitched into the other two" 230