Copyright

This edition first published in Great Britain in 2006 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE

This digital edition first published in 2009 by Canongate Books

The following stories first published in
The Baboons Who Went This Way And That in 2006
‘Chicken, Hawk and the Missing Needle’
‘Morategi and His Two Wives’
‘The MiracleTree’
‘The Goat and the Jackal’
Copyright © Alexander McCall Smith, 2006

The following stories first published in The Girl Who Married a Lion in 2004
‘Bad Uncles’
‘The Grandmother Who Was Kind To A Smelly Girl’
‘The Thathano Moratho Tree’
Copyright © Alexander McCall Smith, 2004

Other stories first published in Children of Wax in 1989 by Canongate Books Ltd

Copyright © Alexander McCall Smith, 1989

Illustrations copyright © Naomi Holwill, 2006

The moral rights of the author have been asserted

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84767 695 5

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