Excerpt from Three Minute Stories Many of these stories and rhymes appeared originally in the Ladies' Home Journal, and were signed either with my initials, or with names of characters in my books. Others were adapted by me from the Indian Hitopadesa, or Book of Good Counsel, and from two anonymous story books of a bygone generation long out of print. These are marked Adapted.aniputa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.