The presence of visiting children would create an audience for the story-telling. The selection of the story-teller and the story or stories might be the result of a previous story contest. The contest and the story-telling under the Tree would be ideal drill situations. The entire play would serve as a fine unification of the child's work in nature, in construction, in physical education, in music, in composition, and in literature. Everything he does in the play will be full of vital interest to him; and his daily tasks will seem of more worth to him when he sees how he can use them with so much pleasure to himself and to others. This play is an example of the organizing of ideas which a good tale may exercise in the mind of the child and the part the tale as an organized experience may play in his development. The creative return desired by the teacher, as well as the choice of tales for particular purposes, will depend largely on the controlling ideas in the program. It must be remembered that the child of to-day is not bookish nor especially literary; and he has increasing life interests. In the ordinary school year, work naturally divides itself into the main season festivals. While story work is here presented in its separate elements, any teacher realizes the possibility of making the story work lead up to and culminate in the Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or May Festival. Because the good story bears a close relation to nature and to human life, any good course of stories will offer to the teacher ample freedom of choice for any natural school purpose. The good tale always gains by being placed in a situation where it assists in carrying out a larger idea. When the tale is one unit of a festival program it appeals to the child as a unit in his everyday life, it becomes socially organized for him. REFERENCES: English: Baker, F.T.; Carpenter, G.; and Scott, F.N.: _The Teaching of English_. Longmans. Chubb, Percival: _The Teaching of English_. Macmillan. Story-Telling: Bailey, Carolyn: _For the Story Teller_. Bradley. Bryant, Sara C.: _How to Tell Stories to Children_. Houghton. _Ibid.: Stories to Tell_. Houghton. Buckland, Anna: _Use of Stories in the Kindergarten_. Steiger. Coe, F.E.: _First Book of Stories for the Story-teller_. Houghton. Hotchkiss, Mary T.: "Story-telling in the Kindergarten." _N.E.A. Report_, 1893. Keyes, Angela: _Stories and Story-Telling_. Appleton. Lyman, Edna: _Story-Telling_. McClurg. McMurry, Charles: _Special Method in Primary Reading_. Macmillan. O'Grady, Alice (Moulton), and Throop, Frances: _The Story-Teller's Book_. Rand. Olcott, F.J.: "Story-Telling as a Means of Teaching Literature." _N.Y. Libraries_; vol. 4, pp. 38-43. Feb., 1914. Olcott, Frances, and Pendleton, Amena: _The Jolly Book for Boys and Girls_. Houghton.