Published by Good Press, 2019

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       I WONDER!

       INTRODUCTION

       Tales of Wonder

       I Wonder

       What the Birds Said

       The Smith and the Fairies

       Little Surya Bai

       The Storks and the Night Owl

       The Five Queer Brothers

       The Lac of Rupees

       The Emperor's Nightingale

       Hookedy-Crookedy

       Arndt's Night Underground

       The Unicorn

       Destiny

       The Queen of the Golden Mines

       The Deserter [4]

       The Two Melons

       The Iron Casket

       The Knights of the Fish

       Dapplegrim

       The Hermit

       The Watch-tower Between Earth and Heaven [5]

       The Lucky Coin

       The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin

       The Bird of Truth

       The Two Genies

       Steelpacha [6]

       The Buried Moon

       The Farmer of Liddesdale

       The Badger's Money

       The Grateful Foxes

       The Black Horse

       Truth's Triumph

       The Feast of the Lanterns

       The Lake of Gems

       The Sea-Maiden

       The Enchanted Waterfall

       The Amadan of the Dough

       The Rakshas's Palace

       Billy Beg and the Bull

       The Princes Fire-flash and Fire-fade

       Panch-Phul Ranee

       Schippeitaro

I WONDER!

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      I wonder if in Samarcand

       Grave camels kneel in golden sand,

       Still lading bales of magic spells

       And charms a lover's wisdom tells,

       To fare across the desert main

       And bring the Princess home again—

       I wonder!

      I wonder in Japan to-day

       If grateful beasts find out the way

       To those who succoured them in pain,

       And bring their blessings back again;

       If cranes and sparrows take the shape

       And all the ways of mortals ape—

       I wonder!

      In Bagdad, may there still be found

       That potent powder, finely ground,

       Which changes all who on it feast,

       Monarch or slave, to bird or beast?

       Do Caliphs taste and unafraid,

       Turn