The Talking Thrush, and Other Tales from India

The Talking Thrush, and Other Tales from India

The present selection is confined to the Beast Stories, [viii]which are particularly interesting as being mostly indigenous and little affected by so-called Aryan influence. Most of them are new, or have been published only in the North Indian Notes and Queries (referred to as N.I.N.Q.). [ix] [xiii] [1] Now this Thrush had a clever head; so she thought something more might be done with cotton besides lining a nest. In her flights abroad she used often to pass by the door of a Cotton-carder. The Cotton-carder had a thing like a bow, made of a piece of wood, and a thong of leather tying the ends together into a curve. He used to take the cotton, and pile it in a heap; then he took the carding-bow, and twang-twang-twanged it among the heap of cotton, so that the fibres or threads of it became disentangled. Then he rolled it up into oblong balls, and sold it to other people, who made it into thread.[2] The Thrush often watched the Cotton-carder at work. Every day after dinner, she went to the cotton tree, and plucked out a fluff of cotton in her beak and hid it away. She went on doing this till at last she had quite a little heap of cotton all of her own. At least, it was not really her own, because she stole it; but then you cannot get policemen to take up a Thrush for stealing, and as men catch Thrushes and put them in a cage all for nothing, it is only fair the birds should have their turn. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 30635
Author: Crooke, William
Release Date: Dec 9, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863-1950

Illustrator: Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944