r by
her own "Mammy," I owe a deeper debt, for _Epaminondas_ has carried joy
since then into more schools and homes than I dare to enumerate.

And to all the others,--friends in whom the child-heart lingers,--my
thanks for the laughs we have had, the discussions we have warmed to,
the helps you have given. May you never lack the right story at the
right time, or a child to love you for telling it!

SARA CONE BRYANT

CONTENTS

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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STORY-TELLER
Additional Suggestions for Method--Two Valuable
Types of Story--A Graded List of Stories to dramatise
and retell 11

STORY-TELLING IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Importance of Oral Methods--Opportunity of the
Primary Grades--Points to be observed in dramatising
and retelling, in connection with English 27

STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN

TWO LITTLE RIDDLES IN RHYME 43

THE LITTLE YELLOW TULIP 43

THE COCK-A-DOO-DLE-DOO 45

THE CLOUD 46

THE LITTLE RED HEN 48

THE GINGERBREAD MAN 49

THE LITTLE JACKALS AND THE LION 55

THE COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE 58

LITTLE JACK ROLLAROUND 62

HOW BROTHER RABBIT FOOLED THE WHALE AND THE ELEPHANT 66

THE LITTLE HALF-CHICK 70

THE BLACKBERRY-BUSH 74

THE FAIRIES 78

THE ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE FIELD MOUSE 80

ANOTHER LITTLE RED HEN 83

THE STORY OF THE LITTLE RID HIN 87

THE STORY OF EPAMINONDAS AND HIS AUNTIE 92

THE BOY WHO CRIED "WOLF!" 96

THE FROG KING 97

THE SUN AND THE WIND 99

THE LITTLE JACKAL AND THE ALLIGATOR 100

THE LARKS IN THE CORNFIELD 106