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The Complete Works of
COUNT TOLSTÓY
Volume XII.

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"The clerk beat Sidor's face until theblood came"
Photogravure from Painting by A. Kivshénko

FABLES FOR CHILDREN ⚘STORIES FOR CHILDREN⚘ NATURAL SCIENCESTORIES ⚘ POPULAR EDUCATION ⚘DECEMBRISTS⚘ MORAL TALES ⚘ ⚘ ⚘

By COUNT LEV N. T́OLSTÓY

Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by

LEO WIENER

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University

BOSTON ⚘ DANA ESTES &COMPANY ⚘ PUBLISHERS

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EDITION DE LUXE

Limited to One Thousand Copies,of which this isNo. 411

Copyright, 1904
By Dana Estes & Company

Entered at Stationers' Hall

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

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CONTENTS

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FABLES FOR CHILDREN

  • Æsop's Fables  3
  • Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables  19

STORIES FOR CHILDREN