o the child's motor sense and instinctively get into his
muscles. This is very evident in _Brother Rabbit's
Riddle_:--

De big bird bob en little bird sing;
De big bee zoon en little bee sting,
De little man lead en big hoss foller--
Kin you tell wat 's good fer a head in a holler?

The song in _Brother Rabbit and the Little Girl_ appeals
also to the child's sense of sound:--

De jay-bird hunt de sparrer-nes;
De bee-martin sail all 'roun';
De squer'l, he holler from de top er de tree,
Mr. Mole, he stay in de ground;
He hide en he stay twel de dark drap down--
Mr. Mole, he hide in de groun'.

_The simple and the sincere_. The child's taste for the
simple and the sincere is one reason for the appeal which
Andersen's tales make. In using his stories it is to be
remembered that, although Andersen lacked manliness in being
sentimental, he preserved the child's point of view and gave
his thought in the true nursery story's mode of expression.
Since real sentiment places the emphasis on the object which
arouses feeling and the sentimental places the emphasis on
the feeling, sincerity demands that in using Andersen's
tales, one lessen the sentimental when it occurs by omitting
to give prominence to the feeling. Andersen's tales reflect
what is elementary in human nature, childlike fancy, and
emotion. His speech is characterized by the simplest words
and conceptions, an avoidance of the abstract, the use of
direct language, and a naive poetic expression adapted to
general comprehension. He is not to be equaled in child
conversations. The world of the fairy tale must be simple
like the world Andersen has given us. It must be a world of
genuine people and honest occupations in order to form a
suitable background for the supernatural. Only fairy tales
possessing simplicity are suited to the oldest kindergarten
child of five or six years. To the degree that the child is
younger than five years, he should be given fewer and fewer
fairy tales. Those given should be largely realistic stories
of extreme simplicity.

_Unity of effect_. The little child likes the short tale,
for it is a unity he can grasp. If you have ever listened to
a child of five spontaneously attemptin