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]
A True Story about a Girl(Louisa Alcott)[108]
My Kingdom[113]
Piccola[115]
The Little Fir Tree[116]
How Moses was Saved[122]
The Ten Fairies[126]
The Elves and the Shoemaker[130]
Who Killed the Otter's Babies?[133]
Early[136]
The Brahmin, the Tiger, and the Jackal[137]
The Little Jackal and the Camel[144]
The Gulls of Salt Lake[147]
The Nightingale[150]
Margery's Garden[159]
The Little Cotyledons[171]
The Talkative Tortoise[176]
Robert of Sicily[178]
The Jealous Courtiers[185]
Prince Cherry[189]
The Gold in the Orchard[199]
Margaret of New Orleans[200]
The Dagda's Harp[204]
The Tailor and the Three Beasts[208]
How the Sea became Salt[215]
The Castle of Fortune[220]
David and Goliath[227]
The Shepherd's Song[233]
The Hidden Servants[236]
Little Gottlieb[243]
How the Fir Tree became the Christmas Tree[246]
The Diamond and the Dewdrop[248]