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                         TOLSTOI FOR THE YOUNG

                     [Illustration: IVAN THE FOOL.

                           _Frontispiece._]




                            TOLSTOI FOR THE
                                 YOUNG

                       SELECT TALES FROM TOLSTOI

                      Translated from the Russian
                                  By
                          MRS. R. S. TOWNSEND

               WITH SIX  PLATES BY MICHEL SEVIER

                                LONDON
                KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD
                     NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

                                 1916




CONTENTS


                                          PAGE

IVAN THE FOOL                                1

WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS GOD ALSO      56

A PRISONER                                  82

EMELIAN AND THE EMPTY DRUM                 138

THE GREAT BEAR                             156

THREE QUESTIONS                            158

THE GODSON                                 167




LIST OF  PLATES


Ivan the Fool                                 _Frontispiece_

Where there is Love, there is God also      _To face p._ 57

A Prisoner                                               82

Emelian and the Empty Drum                              138

Three Questions                                         158

The Godson                                              167




IVAN THE FOOL

     THE STORY OF IVAN THE FOOL AND HIS TWO BROTHERS SIMON THE WARRIOR
     AND TARAS THE POT-BELLIED, AND OF HIS DEAF AND DUMB SISTER, AND THE
     OLD DEVIL AND THREE LITTLE DEVILKINS.


Once upon a time there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simon
the Warrior, Taras the Pot-bellied, and Ivan the Fool