MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND FAIRY TALES
HOW THE HERRING BECAME KING.
JOE MOORE'S STORY.
THE MERMAID OF GOB NY OOYL.
KING MAGNUS BAREFOOT. From "Manx Tales," by Sophia Morrison.
THE GREEDY MAN. From "Contes Populaires Malgaches," by Gariel Ferrand.
ARBUTUS.
BASIL.
BRIONY
DANDELION. From "Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants," by C. M. Skinner.
THE MAGIC PICTURE.
THE STONE MONKEY.
STEALING PEACHES.
THE COUNTRY OF GENTLEMEN.
FOOTBALL ON A LAKE. From "Chinese Fairy Tales, by H. A. Giles.
THE LIME TREE.
INTELLIGENCE AND LUCK.
THE FROST, THE SUN AND WIND. From "Sixty Folk Tales from Slavonic Sources," by O. H. Wratislaw.
THE BOY WHO SLEPT.
THE GODS KNOW. From "Chinese Fairy Stories," by N. A. Pitnam. This story must be shortened and adapted for narration.
THE IMP TREE.
THE PIXY FLOWER.
TOM TIT TOT.
THE PRINCESS OF COLCHESTER. From "Fairy Gold," by Ernest Rhys.
THE ORIGIN OF THE MOLE. From "Cossack Fairy Tales," by R. N. Bain.
DOLLS AND BUTTERFLIES. From "Myths and Legends of Japan," by F. H. Davis.
THE CHILD OF THE FOREST.
THE SPARROW'S WEDDING.
THE MOON MAIDEN. From "Old World Japan," by Frank Rinder.
THE STORY OF MERLIN. From "Stories of Early British Heroes," by C. G. Hartley.
THE ISLE OF THE MYSTIC LAKE. From "The Voyage of Maildun," in "Old Celtic Romances," by P. W. Joyce.
THE STORY OF BALDUR. From "Heroes of Asgard," by M. R. Earle. In three parts for young children.
ADALHERO. From "Evenings with the Old Story Tellers."
MARTIN THE PEASANT'S SON. From "Russian Wonder Tales," by Post Wheeler. This is more suitable for reading.
THE LEGEND OF RIP VAN WINKLE. From "Rip Van Winkle," by Washington Irving.
URASHIMA. From "Myths and Legends of Japan," by F. H. Davis.
THE MONK AND THE BIRD. From "The Book of Legends Told Over Again," by H. E. Scudder.
CAROB. From "Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants," by C. M. Skinner. A Talmud legend.
THE LAND OF ETERNAL YOUTH. From "Child-Lore."
CATSKIN.
GUY OF GISBORNE.
KING HENRY AND THE MILLER. From "A Book of Ballad Stories," by Mary Macleod.
THE LEGEND OF THE BLACK PRINCE.
WHY THE WOLVES NO LONGER DEVOUR THE LAMBS OF CHRISTMAS NIGHT. From "Au Pays des Legendes," by Eugéne Herepin.
THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST.
THE COYOTE AND THE RAVENS WHO RACED THEIR EYES. From "Zuni Folk Tales," by F. H. Cushing.
THE PEACEMAKER. From "Legends of the Iroquois," by W. V. Canfield.
THE STORY OF THE GREAT CHIEF OF THE ANIMALS.
THE STORY OF LION AND LITTLE JACKAL. From "Kaffir Folk Tales," by G. M. Theal.
THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT ST. NICHOLAS.
THE THREE COUNSELS. From "Bulletin De Folk Lore, Liège."
THE TALE OF THE PEASANT DEMYAR.
THE MONKEY AND THE POMEGRANATE TREE.
THE ANT AND THE SNOW.
THE VALUE OF AN EGG.
THE PADRE AND THE NEGRO.
PAPRANKA. From "Tales of Old Lusitania," by Coelho.
KOJATA.
THE LOST SPEAR. (To be shortened.)
THE HERMIT. (By Voltaire.)
THE BLUE CAT. (From the French.)
THE SILVER PENNY.
THE THREE SISTERS.
THE SLIPPERS OF ABOU-KAREM. From "The Golden Fairy Book."
THE FAIRY BABY. From "Uncle Remus in Hansaland," by Mary and Newman Tremearne.
WHY THE SOLE OF A MAN'S FOOT IS UNEVEN.
THE WONDERFUL HAIR.
THE EMPEROR TROJAN'S GOAT EARS.
THE LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS.
HANDICRAFT ABOVE EVERYTHING.
JUST EARNINGS ARE NEVER LOST.
THE MAIDEN WHO WAS SWIFTER THAN A HORSE. From "Servian Stories and Legends."
THE COUPLE SILENCIEUX.
LE MORT PARLANT.
LA SOTTE FIANCÉE
LE CORNAÇON.
PERSIN AU POT. From "Contes Populaires du Pays Wallon," by August Gittée.
THE RAT AND THE CAT.
THE TWO THIEVES.
THE TWO RATS.
THE DOG AND THE RAT. From "Contes Populaires Malgaches," by Gabriel Ferrand.
RUA AND TOKA. From "The Maori Tales," by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Marstow. This story is given for the same purpose as "A Long-Bow Story" from Andrew Lang's "Olive Fairy Book."
LADY CLARE.
THE WOLF-CHILD. From "Tales from the Land of Grapes and Nuts," by Charles Sellers.
THE UNGRATEFUL MAN.
THE FAITHFUL SERVANT. (In part.)
JOVINIAN, THE PROUD EMPEROR.
THE KNIGHT AND THE KING OF HUNGARY.
THE WICKED PRIEST.
THE EMPEROR AND CONRAD AND THE COUNT'S SON. From the "Gesta Romanorum."
VIRGIL, THE EMPEROR AND THE TRUFFLES. From "Unpublished Legends of Virgil," collected by C. G. Leland.
SEEING THAT ALL WAS RIGHT. (A good story for boys.)
LA FORTUNA.
THE LANTERNS OF THE STOZZI PALACE. From "Legends of Florence," by C. G. Leland.
THE THREE KINGDOMS.
YELENA THE WISE.
SEVEN SIMEONS.
IVAN, THE BIRD AND THE WOLF.
THE PIG, THE DEER AND THE STEED.
WATERS OF YOUTH.
THE USELESS WAGONER. From "Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars," by Jeremiah Curtin. These stories need shortening and adapting.
THE COMICAL HISTORY OF THE KING AND THE COBBLER. This story should be shortened to add to the dramatic power. [From a Chap Book.]
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE. From "Fairy Tales," by Hans Christian Andersen.
HEREAFTER THIS. From "More English Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs. This story and "The Fisherman and his Wife" are great favorites and could be told one after the other, one to illustrate the patient wife, and the other the patient husband.
HOW A MAN FOUND HIS WIFE IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD. This is a very dramatic and pagan story, to be used with discretion.
THE MAN WITHOUT HANDS AND FEET.
THE COCKEREL. From "Papuan Fairy Tales." by Annie Ker.
THE STORY OF SIR TRISTRAM AND LA BELLE ISEULT. From "Cornwall's Wonderland," by Mabel Quiller-Couch. To be told in shortened form.
THE CAT THAT WENT TO THE DOCTOR.
THE WOOD ANEMONE.
SWEETER THAN SUGAR.
THE RASPBERRY CATERPILLAR. From "Fairy Tales from Finland," by Zachris Topélius.
DINEVAN, THE EMU.
GOOMBLE GUBBON, THE BUSTARD. From "Australian Legendary Tales," by Mrs. K. L. Parker.
THE TULIP BED. From "The English Fairy Book," by Ernest Rhys. I have been asked so often for this particular story I am glad to be able to provide it in very poetical language.