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                      VILLAGE FOLK-TALES OF CEYLON

                                 Vol. I


                      Collected and Translated by

                               H. PARKER

               Late of the Irrigation Department, Ceylon


                                 LONDON
                               LUZAC & CO
                     Publishers to the India Office
                                  1910








CONTENTS


                                                    PAGE

Introduction                                           1


PART I.

STORIES OF THE CULTIVATING CASTE AND VAEDDAS.

   NO.

     1 The Making of the Great