The Art of the Story-Teller Part 31

STORIES DEALING WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE YOUNGER CHILD.

[This is sometimes due to a kind action shown to some humble person or to an animal.]

THE THREE SONS.

From "The Kiltartan Wonder Book," by Lady Gregory.

THE FLYING s.h.i.+P.

From "Russian Fairy Tales," by F. B. Bain.

HOW JESPER HERDED THE HARES.

From "The Violet Fairy Book," by Andrew Lang.

YOUTH, LIFE AND DEATH.

From "Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars," by Jeremiah Curtin.

JACK THE DULLARD.

From "Fairy Tales," by Hans Christian Andersen.

THE ENCHANTED WHISTLE.

From "The Golden Fairy Book."

THE KING'S THREE SONS.

HUNCHBACK AND BROTHERS.

From "Legends of the French Provinces."

THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE.

From "Russian Wonder Tales," by Post Wheeler. This story is more suitable for reading than telling.

THE QUEEN BEE.

From Grimm's Fairy Tales, edited by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.

THE WONDERFUL BIRD.

From "Roumanian Fairy Tales," by J. M. Percival.

STORIES FROM THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS.

THE STORY OF SAINT BRANDONS. Vol. 7, page 52.

THE STORY OF SAINT FRANCIS. Vol. 5, page 125.

THE STORY OF SANTA CLARA AND THE ROSES.

SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. Vol. 6, page 213.

SAINT MARTIN AND THE CLOAK. Vol. 6, page 142.

From the "Legenda Aurea."

THE LEGEND OF SAINT MARJORY.

From "Tales Facetiae."

MELANGELL'S LAMBS.

From "The Welsh Fairy Book," by W. J. Thomas.

OUR LADY'S TUMBLER.

Twelfth Century Legend Done Out of Old French into English, by J. H. Wickstead. This story may be shortened and adapted without sacrificing too much of the beauty of the style.

THE SONG OF THE MINISTER.

From "A Child's Book of Saints," by William Canton. This should be shortened and somewhat simplified for narration, especially in the technical, ecclesiastical terms.

THE STORY OF SAINT KENELM, THE LITTLE KING.

THE STORY OF KING ALFRED AND SAINT CUTHBERT.

THE STORY IF AEDBURG, THE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD.

THE STORY OF KING HAROLD'S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY.

From "Old English History for Children," by E. A. Freeman.

I commend all those who tell these stories to read the comments made on them by E. A. Freeman himself.

MODERN STORIES.

THE SUMMER PRINCESS.

From "The Enchanted Garden," by Mrs. M. L. Molesworth. This may be shortened and arranged for narration.

THOMAS AND THE PRINCESS.

From "Twenty-six Ideal Stories for Girls," by Helena M. Conrad.

A fairy tale for grown-ups, for pure relaxation.

THE TRUCE OF G.o.d.

From "All-Fellows Seven Legends of Lower Redemption,"

by Laurence Housman.

THE SELFISH GIANT.

From "Fairy Tales," by Oscar Wilde.

THE LIGEND OF THE TORTOISE.

From "Windlestraw, Legends in Rhyme of Plants and Animals,"

by Pamela Glenconner. From the Provencal.

FAIRY GRUMBLESNOOKS.

A BIT OF LAUGHTER'S SMILE.

From "Tales for Little People," Nos. 323 and 318, by Maud Symonds.