Earl Schenck Miers

The book is a collection of 40 fables and about 100 odd folktales collected by him during his stay in the Valley as a missionary. "KASHMÍR as a field of Folk-lore literature is, perhaps, not surpassed in fertility by any other country in the world... The vocation of a missionary brings one into close and constant "touch" with the people, from whom, as I glide along in the boat, or walk by the way, or squat in the hut, or teach in the school, I...