Tanscriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A letter with a breve is indicated by [)<letter>]. The Complete Works of Count Tolstóy Volume XII. [Illustration: "The clerk beat Sidor's face until the blood came" _Photogravure from Painting by A. Kivshénko_] FABLES FOR CHILDREN STORIES FOR CHILDREN NATURAL SCIENCE STORIES POPULAR EDUCATION DECEMBRISTS MORAL TALES by COUNT LEV N. TOLSTÓY Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by LEO WIENER Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University [Illustration] Boston Dana Estes & Company Publishers Edition De Luxe Limited to One Thousand Copies, of which this is No. 411 _Copyright, 1904_ By Dana Estes & Company _Entered at Stationers' Hall_ Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE FABLES FOR CHILDREN Æsop's Fables 3 Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables 19 STORIES FOR CHILDREN The Foundling 39 The Peasant and the Cucumbers 40 The Fire 41 The Old Horse 43 How I Learned to Ride 46 The Willow 49 Búlka 51 Búlka and the Wild Boar 53 Pheasants 56 Milton and Búlka 58 The Turtle 60 Búlka and the Wolf 62 What Happened to Búlka in Pyatigórsk 65 Búlka's and Milton's End 68 The Gray Hare 70 God Sees the Truth, but Does Not Tell at Once 72 Hunting Worse than Slavery 82 A Prisoner of the Caucasus 92 Ermák 124