CHILDREN, NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES, POPULAR EDUCATION, DECEMBRISTS, MORAL
TALES***


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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