Folk Tales of Nepal: First Series

asked bamboo pole beaten rice began biggest barn black gram blind blow bride bundle carried chest clever fellow clothes cobbler confectioner cow-dung cowries crow curd Dear uncle death demon dinner dress eating elder sister eyes father FOLK TALES folk-tales forest gaint garments ground floor hand happened hastily host of giants human voice husband inmates inside Jhumicha journey Kakaju king lame locket look lunch maize marriage meal Meanwhile merchant miserly monkey mother Nepal night O-bread O-sweets pain palace pice Punkhu Maicha rebuke rice grains riddle round the tree rupee saying seven daughters seven sisters shuddered to think silver coins Sinhapata Maiju sleep snake soon sparrow staircase step-mother story strange surprised TALES OF NEPAL thieves thing thinking thought three friends tolas of silver told tom-tom took upstairs washermen wife woman wonderful Yomari tree