Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without note. There is some archaic spelling in this text, which has been retained as printed, for example, pedler, phrensy, wo, etc. The single oe ligature has not been retained. The author dedication at the beginning of the book appears exactly as printed in the original, although it appears that there is some text missing from the start of it. The following amendments have been made: Page 101--thus amended to this--"... only this much I know, that whoever ..." Page 136--Nourmahal amended to Nurmahal--"... and asked where Nurmahal and Mirza were." Page 188--Saaud amended to Saoud--"The old prince was Saoud, sultan of the Wechabites." Page 204--sheers amended to shears--"... and pinched him with sharp shears, until he sank down, ..." Illustrations have been moved slightly where they were previously located in the middle of a paragraph. The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page. Advertising material has been moved to the end of the text. End of Project Gutenberg's The Oriental Story Book, by Wilhelm Hauff