Twenty-Three Tales

Table of Contents

Part I. Tales for Children: Published about 1872

1. God Sees the Truth, but Waits

2. A Prisoner in the Caucasus

3. The Bear-Hunt

Part II: Popular Stories

4. What Men Live By (1881)

5. A Spark Neglected Burns the House (1885)

6. Two Old Men (1885)

7. Where Love Is, God Is (1885)

Part III: A Fairy Tale

8. The Story of Iván the Fool (1885)

Part IV: Stories Written to Pictures (1885)

9. Evil Allures, but Good Endures

Little Girls Wiser than Men

Part V: Folk-Tales Retold

12. The Three Hermits (1886)

13. The Imp and the Crust (1886)

14. How Much Land does a Man Need? (1886)

15. A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg (1886)

16. The Godson (1886)

17. The Repentant Sinner (1886)

18. The Empty Drum (1891)

Part VI: Adaptations from the French

19. The Coffee House of Surat (1893)

20. Too Dear! (1897)

Part VII: Stories Given to Aid the Persecuted Jews (1903)

21. Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

22. Work, Death and Sickness

23. Three Questions

Index of Scripture References

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