Crooke and Rouse. Talking Thrush

Today's free book is The Talking Thrush and Other Tales from India by William Crooke and W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. H. Robinson. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books. You can get a free Kindle ebook from Amazon too, and a free audiobook from LibriVox.

The illustrations are by W. H. Robinson, and I've made a Flickr collection.




01. The Talking Thrush: text
02. The Rabbit and the Monkey: text
03. The Sparrow's Revenge: text
04. The Judgment of the Jackal: text
05. How the Mouse got into his Hole: text
06. King Solomon and the Owl: text
07. The Camel's Neck: text
08. The Quail and the Fowler: text
09. The King of the Kites: text
10. The Jackal and the Camel: text
11. The Wise Old Shepherd: text
12. Beware of Bad Company: text
13. The Foolish Wolf: text
14. Reflected Glory: text
15. The Cat and the Sparrows: text
16. The Foolish Fish: text
17. The Clever Goat: text
18. A Crow is a Crow for Ever: text
19. The Grateful Goat: text
20. The Cunning Jackal; or, The Biter Bit: text
21. The Farmer's Ass: text
22. The Parrot Judge: text
23. The Frog and the Snake: text
24. Little Miss Mouse and her Friends: text
25. The Jackal that Lost his Tail: text
26. The Wily Tortoise: text
27. The King of the Mice: text
28. The Valiant Blackbird: text
29. The Goat and the Hog: text
30. The Parrot and the Parson: text
31. The Lion and the Hare: text
32. The Monkey's Bargains: text
33. The Monkey's Rebuke: text
34. The Bull and the Bullfinch: text
35. The Swan and the Crow: text
36. Pride Shall Have a Fall: text
37. The Kid and the Tiger: text
38. The Stag, the Crow, and the Jackal: text
39. The Monkey and the Crows: text
40. The Swan and the Paddy-bird: text
41. What is a Man?: text
42. The Wound and the Scar: text
43. The Cat and the Parrot: text