Og, king of Bashan, 225, 226. 
    Old man and young wife, 29. 
    Old man’s prayer, 109;
      reason for not marrying, 31. 
    Old woman in mosque, 109. 
    Omens, unlucky, 107, 108. 
    Opportunity, 263. 
    Oriental story-books, general plan of, 123. 
    Orientalist, or Letters of a Rabbi, 141. 
    Origin, all things return to their, 131. 
    Ouseley, Sir Gore, 6, 52.

    Painter and critics, 78. 
    Panchatantra, 49, 129, 140, 146, 147, 159, 240. 
    Panjabi Legends, 179. 
    Paradise, persons translated to, 209. 
    Parents, reverence for, 236. 
    Parrot and maina, 178;
      oilman’s parrot, 114;
      Moghul’s parrot, 116. 
    Parrot-Book, 124;
      frame-story of, 125, 178. 
    Parrot, Seventy Tales of a, 124. 
    Parrots in Hindu fictions, 179. 
    Passion-service, 323, 326. 
    Pasquil’s Jests, 81, 330. 
    Patient Grissell, 331. 
    ‘Paveant illi,’ etc., 319. 
    Payne’s Arabian Nights, 274. 
    Peasant in Paradise, 327. 
    Peasants, Foolish, 111. 
    Persian and his cat, 80;
      and the governor, 116;
      courtier and old friend, 79;
      ladies, witty, 63;
      Moonshee, 71;
      poet and the impostor, 106;
      Tales of a Thousand and one Days, 93, 135. 
    Petis de la Croix, 93. 
    Petronius Arbiter, 307. 
    Phaedrus, 300. 
    Pharaoh and Moses, 208. 
    Pharaoh’s daughters, 209. 
    Pirke Aboth, 260. 
    Plants, to keep alive, 78. 
    Planudes’ Life of Esop, 108, 301. 
    Poets in praise of springtide, 14. 
    Poet, rich man and, 107. 
    Poet’s meaning, 104. 
    Poetry, ‘stealing,’ 106. 
    Poets, royal gifts to, 101, 104, 105. 
    Poverty, 263. 
    Prayers, odd, 71, 109. 
    Preachers, Muslim, 34, 66, 70, 71. 
    Precept and Practice, 47, 263. 
    Prefaces to books, 11. 
    Priest confessing poor man, 325. 
    Pride, 261. 
    Princess of Rum and her son, 166. 
    Procrustes, bed of, 199. 
    Prodigality, 24. 
    Psalm-singing at gallows, 331.

    Quevedo’s Visions, 343.

    Rabbi and the poor woman, 227;
      and the emperor Trajan, 265;
      and the cup of wine, 119. 
    Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, 141;
      Tibetan Tales, 159. 
    ‘Ram caught in a thicket,’ 205. 
    Rasalu, Legend of Raja, 178. 
    Rats that ate iron, 129. 
    Richardson, Octavia, 317. 
    Rich, Barnaby, 350. 
    Riches, 44, 50, 261. 
    Rieu, Charles, 124. 
    Robber and the Khoja, 69. 
    Rogers, the poet, 359. 
    Rose and Nightingale, 42. 
    Ross, David, 278. 
    Rum, country of, 134. 
    Russian Folk-Tales, 141.