The Art of Story-Telling

by Marie L. Shedlock

• March and the Shepherd.
• (Folk Lore from Foreign Lands. January, 1914.)
• The Two Young Lions.
• (From Fénélon's Fables and Fairy Tales. Translated by Marc T. Valette. March, 1914.)
• Why the Cat Spits at the Dog. (November, 1913.)
• The Story of Persephone. By R. T. Wyche. (September, 1913.)
• The Story of England's First Poet. By G. P. Krapp.
• (From In Oldest England, July, 1913.)
• The Three Goats. By Jessica Child. (For very young children. July, 1913.)
• The Comical History of the Cobbler and the King. (Chap. Book. 12331. i. 4.)
• (This story should be shortened to add to the dramatic
  power.)

The two following stories, which are great favourites, should be told one after the other, one to illustrate the patient wife, and the other the patient husband.

• The Fisherman and his Wife. Hans. C. Andersen.
• (See Publishers of Andersen's Stories.)
• Hereafter This.
• (From More English Fairy Tales. By Jacobs. 12411. h. 23. David Nutt.)
• 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. Annie Ker.)
• The Story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Iseult. (To be told in shortened form.)
• (From Cornwall's Wonderland. Mabel Quiller Couch.)
• The Cat that Went to the Doctor.
• The Wood Anemone.
• Sweeter than Sugar.
• The Raspberry Caterpillar.
• (From Fairy Tales from Finland. Zopelius.)
• Dinevan the Emu.
• Goomble Gubbon the Bustard.
• (From Australian Legendary Lore. By Mrs. Langloh Parker. 12411. h. 13.)
• The Tulip Bed.
• (From English Fairy Book. 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.

• The Fisherman and his Wife.
• The Wolf and the Kids.
• The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet.
• The Old Man and his Grandson.
• Rumpelstiltskin.
• The Queen Bee.
• The Wolf and the Man.
• The Golden Goose.
• (From Grimm's Fairy Tales. By Mrs. Edgar Lucas. 12410. dd. 33. Constable.)

Stories from Hans C. Andersen.

(For young children.)

• Ole-Luk-Oie. (Series of seven.)
• What the Old Man Does is Always Right.
• The Princess and the Pea.
• Thumbelina.

(For older children.)

• It's Quite True.
• Five Out of One Pod.
• Great Claus and Little Claus.
• Jack the Dullard.
• The Buckwheat.
• The Fir-Tree.
• The Little Tin Soldier.
• The Nightingale.
• The Ugly Duckling.
• The Swineherd.
• The Sea Serpent.
• The Little Match-Girl.
• The Gardener and the Family.