CHILDREN, NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES, POPULAR EDUCATION, DECEMBRISTS, MORAL
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The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy
Volume XII.


[Illustration: "The clerk beat Sidor's face until the blood came"

_Photogravure from Painting by A. Kivshenko_]


FABLES FOR CHILDREN
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES
POPULAR EDUCATION
DECEMBRISTS
MORAL TALES

by

COUNT LEV N. TOLSTOY

Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by

LEO WIENER

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University







[Illustration]

Boston
Dana Estes & Company
Publishers

Edition De Luxe
Limited to One Thousand Copies,
of which this is
No. 411

_Copyright, 1904_
By Dana Estes & Company

_Entered at Stationers' Hall_

Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.




CONTENTS


                                                PAGE
  FABLES FOR CHILDREN
  Aesop's Fables                                   3
  Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables     19

  STORIES FOR CHILDREN
  The Foundling                                   39
  The Peasant and the Cucumbers                   40
  The Fire                                        41
  The Old Horse                                   43
  How I Learned to Ride                           46
  The Willow                                      49
  Bulka                                           51
  Bulka and the Wild Boar                         53
  Pheasants                                       56
  Milton and Bulka                                58
  The Turtle                                      60
  Bulka and the Wolf                              62
  What Happened to Bulka in Pyatigorsk            65
  Bulka's and Milton's End                        68
  The Gray Hare                                   70
  God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once   72
  Hunting Worse than Slavery                      82
  A Prisoner of the Caucasus                      92
  Ermak                                          124

  NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES
  Stories From Physics:
    The Magnet                                   137
    Moisture                                     140
    The Different Connection of Particles        142
    Crystals                                     143
    Injurious Air                                146
    How Balloons Are Made                        150
    Galvanism                                    152
    The Sun's Heat                               156
  Stories From Zoology:
    The Owl and the Hare                         159
    How the Wolves Teach Their Whelps            160
    Hares and Wolves                             161
    The Scent                                    162
    Touch and Sight                              164
    The Silkworm                                 165
  Stories From Botany:
    The Apple-Tree                               170
    The Old Poplar                               172
    The Bird-Cherry                              174
    How Trees Walk                               176

  The Decembrists                                181
  On Popular Education                           251
  What Men Live By                               327
  The Three Hermits                              363
  Neglect the Fire                               375
  The Candle                                     395
  The Two Old Men                                409
  Where Love Is, There God Is Also               445

  TEXTS FOR CHAPBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
  The Fiend Persists, but God Resists            463
  Little Girls Wiser than Old People             466
  The Two Brothers and the Gold                  469
  Ilyas                                          472

  A Fairy-Tale about Ivan the Fool               481




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                PAGE
  "The clerk beat Sidor's face until the blood
  came" (_The Candle, see page 397_)           _Frontispiece_
  "'Whose knife is this?'"                        73
  "'God will forgive you'"                        81
  "They rode off to the mountains"                96
  "'Whither are you bound?'"                     332
  "But the candle was still burning"             403




FABLES FOR CHILDREN

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FABLES FOR CHILDREN




I. AESOP'S FABLES


THE ANT AND THE DOVE

An Ant came down to the brook: he wanted to drink. A wave washed him
down and almost drowned him. A Dove was carrying a branch; she saw the
Ant was drowning, so she cast the branch down to him in the brook. The
Ant got up on the branch and was saved. Then a hunter placed a snare for
the Dove, and was on the point of drawing it in. The Ant crawled up to
the hunter and bit him on the leg; the hunter groaned and dropped the
snare. The Dove fluttered upwards and flew away.


THE TURTLE AND THE EAGLE

A Turtle asked an Eagle to teach her how to fly. The Eagle advised her
not to try, as she was not fit for it; but she insisted. The Eagle took
her in his claws, raised her up, and dropped her: she fell on stones and
broke to pieces.


THE POLECAT

A Polecat entered a smithy and began to lick the filings. Blood began to
flow from the Polecat's mouth, but he was glad and continued to lick; he
thought that the blood was coming from the iron, and lost his whole
tongue.


THE LION AND THE MOUSE

A Lion was sleeping. A Mouse ran over his body. He awoke and caught her.
The Mouse besought him; she said:

"Let me go,