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                       TOLD IN THE COFFEE HOUSE




                       Told in the Coffee House

                             Turkish Tales


                    Collected and done into English
                                  by
                     CYRUS ADLER AND ALLAN RAMSAY


                               New York
                         The Macmillan Company
                     London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
                                 1898

                         _All rights reserved_


                           COPYRIGHT, 1898,
                       By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


                             Norwood Press
                 J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
                         Norwood Mass. U.S.A.




                               PREFACE


In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much
interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are
usually little more than rooms, with walls made of small panes of
glass. The furniture consists of a tripod with