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ALADDIN AND THE LAMP.
This story should be divided and told in two sections.
THE STORY OF ALI COGIA.
From "The Arabian Nights Entertainment," edited by Andrew Lang.
STORIES ILLUSTRATING COMMON-SENSE RESOURCEFULNESS AND HUMOR.
THE THIEF AND THE COCOANUT TREE.
THE WOMAN AND THE LIZARD.
SADA SADA.
THE SHOP-KEEPER AND THE ROBBER.
THE RECITER.
RICH MAN'S POTSHERD.
THE SINGER AND THE DONKEY.
CHILD AND MILK.
RICH MAN GIVING A FEAST.
KING SOLOMON AND THE MOSQUITOES.
THE KING WHO PROMISED TO LOOK AFTER TENNAL RANAN'S FAMILY.
VIKADAKAVI.
HORSE AND COMPLAINANT.
THE WOMAN AND THE STOLEN FRUIT.
From "An Indian Tale or Two," by William Swinton.
STORIES DEALING WITH THE SUCCESS OF THE YOUNGER CHILD.
[This is sometimes due to a kind action shown to some
humble person or to an animal.]
THE THREE SONS.
From "The Kiltartan Wonder Book," by Lady Gregory.
THE FLYING SHIP.
From "Russian Fairy Tales," by F. B. Bain.
HOW JESPER HERDED THE HARES.
From "The Violet Fairy Book," by Andrew Lang.
YOUTH, LIFE AND DEATH.
From "Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs
and Magyars," by Jeremiah Curtin.
JACK THE DULLARD.
From "Fairy Tales," by Hans Christian Andersen.
THE ENCHANTED WHISTLE.
From "The Golden Fairy Book."
THE KING'S THREE SONS.
HUNCHBACK AND BROTHERS.
From "Legends of the French Provinces."
THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE.
From "Russian Wonder Tales," by Post Wheeler. This story is
more suitable for reading than telling.
THE QUEEN BEE.
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, edited by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
THE WONDERFUL BIRD.
From "Roumanian Fairy Tales," by J. M. Percival.
STORIES FROM THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS.
THE STORY OF SAINT BRANDONS. Vol. 7, page 52.
THE STORY OF SAINT FRANCIS. Vol. 5, page 125.
THE STORY OF SANTA CLARA AND THE ROSES.
SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. Vol. 6, page 213.
SAINT MARTIN AND THE CLOAK. Vol. 6, page 142.
From the "Legenda Aurea."
THE LEGEND OF SAINT MARJORY.
From "Tales Facetiae."
MELANGELL'S LAMBS.
From "The Welsh Fairy Book," by W. J. Thomas.
OUR LADY'S TUMBLER.
Twelfth Century Legend Done Out of Old French into English,
by J. H. Wickstead. This story may be shortened and adapted
without sacrificing too much of the beauty of the style.
THE SONG OF THE MINISTER.
From "A Child's Book of Saints," by William Canton. This
should be shortened and somewhat simplified for narration,
especially in the technical, ecclesiastical terms.
THE STORY OF SAINT KENELM, THE LITTLE KING.
THE STORY OF KING ALFRED AND SAINT CUTHBERT.
THE STORY IF AEDBURG, THE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD.
THE STORY OF KING HAROLD'S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY.
From "Old English History for Children," by E. A. Freeman.
I commend all those who tell these stories to read the
comments made on them by E. A. Freeman himself.
MODERN STORIES.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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