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CONTENTS

• Some Suggestions for the Storyteller
• Additional suggestions for method.—Two valuable types of story.—Sources for stories.—A graded list of stories to dramatize and retell...................................................ix
• Story-Telling in Teaching English
• Importance of oral methods.—Opportunity of the primary grades.—Points to be observed in dramatizing and retelling, in connection with English....................................xxix
• STORIES TO TELL CHILDREN
• Two Little Riddles in Rhyme.............................1
• The Little Pink Rose....................................1
• The Cock-a-doo-dle-doo..................................4
• The Cloud...............................................4
• The Little Red hen......................................7
• The Gingerbread Man.....................................8
• The Little Jackals and the Lion........................15
• The Country Mouse and the City Mouse...................19
• Little Jack Rollaround.................................23
• How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant...29
• The Little Half-Chick..................................33

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• The Lambikin...........................................38
• The Blackberry-Bush....................................42
• The Fairies............................................47
• The Adventures of the Little Field Mouse...............49
• Another Little Red Hen.................................53
• The Story of the Little Rid Hin........................57
• The Story of Epaminondas and his Auntie................63
• The Boy who cried "Wolf!"..............................68
• The Frog King..........................................69
• The Sun and the Wind...................................71
• The Little Jackal and the Alligator....................72
• The Larks in the Cornfield.............................80
• A True Story about a Girl (Louisa Alcott)..............82
• My Kingdom.............................................88
• Piccola................................................90
• The Little Fir Tree....................................92
• How Moses was Saved....................................99
• The Ten Fairies.......................................103
• The Elves and the Shoemaker...........................109
• Who killed the Otter's Babies?........................113
• Early.................................................116
• The Brahmin, the Tiger, and the Jackal................117
• The Little Jackal and the Camel.......................125
• The Gulls of Salt Lake................................129
• The Nightingale.......................................134
• Margery's Garden......................................145
• The Little Cotyledons.................................159

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• The Talkative Tortoise................................165
• Robert of Sicily......................................168
• The Jealous Courtiers.................................177
• Prince Cherry.........................................181
• The Gold in the Orchard...............................194
• Margaret of New Orleans...............................195
• The Dagda's Harp......................................200
• The Tailor and the Three Beasts.......................205
• The Castle of Fortune.................................215
• David and Goliath.....................................224
• The Shepherd's Song...................................231
• The Hidden Servants...................................234