The Art of the Story-Teller

by Marie L. Shedlock

39. See "Long Bow Story;" "John and the Pig."

40. Published by George Allen & Co.

41. This is even a higher spirit than that shown in the advice given
in the "Agamemnon" (speaking of the victor's attitude after the taking
of Troy):

"Yea, let no craving for forbidden gain
Bid conquerors yield before the darts of greed."

42. It is curious to find that the story of Puss-in-Boots in its variants
is sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without. In the Valley
of the Ganges it has none. In Cashmere it has
one moral, in Zanzibar another.

43. From Hans Christian Andersen, in "Childhood in Literature and Art."

44. "Sartor Resartus," Book III, page 218.

45. From "Childhood in Literature and Art."

46. See "Eastern Stories and Fables," published by Routledge.

47. See Chapter I.