THE STORIES comprising this collection have been culled with my own hands in the many-hued garden of Turkish folklore.
The stories are such as may be heard daily i.
They have not been gathered From books, for Turkey is not a literary land, and no books of the kind exist; but, an attentive listener to "THE STORY-TELLER" who form a peculiar feature of the social life of the Ottomans, I have jotted them down From time to time, and now present them, a choice bouquet, to the English reading public.
THE STORIES comprising this collection have been culled with my own hands in the many-hued garden of Turkish folklore