Stories and Story-Telling

About this eBook

Author

Keyes, Angela M. (Angela Mary)

Title

Stories and Story-telling

Credits

MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

LB: Education: Theory and practice of education

Subject

Storytelling

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66273

Release Date

September 11, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.STORIES AND STORY-TELLING
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.STORY-TELLING — Kinds of Stories to Tell — The Principles of the Art of Telling Stories — Getting the Story — Telling the Story — The Child’s Part in Story-Telling
5. 5.STORIES — THE FAIRY HORSESHOE — THE MOUSE AND THE SAUSAGE — THE STORY OF THE LITTLE BOY AND THE LITTLE DOG — THE STORY OF THE TWO CAKES WHO LOVED EACH OTHER IN SILENCE — HOW THE ROOSTER BUILT A HOUSE OF HIS OWN — THUMBELINA — How She Came to the Woman — THUMBELINA — How She is Carried Off by the Toad — THUMBELINA — How She Got to Land — THUMBELINA — How She Goes to Live with the Field-Mouse — THUMBELINA — How She Meets the Mole — THUMBELINA — How She Takes Care of the Swallow — THUMBELINA — How She is Helped by the Swallow — THUMBELINA — What Became of Her at Last — A VISIT FROM AN ELF — HOW THE CAT GOT ALL THE GRAIN — THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR — THE WONDERFUL SHIP — THE CLEVER GEESE — THE HAPPY PRINCE — THE DWARF ROOTS’ STORY OF THE PUMPKIN SEED — A HORSE’S STORY — A BEWITCHED DONKEY — THE STRAW, THE COAL, AND THE BEAN — MOTHER HOLLE — TOM THUMB — How He Came to His Mother and Father — TOM THUMB — How He Grows up Full of Tricks — TOM THUMB — How He Has a Narrow Escape from a Batter Pudding — TOM THUMB — How He Gets into the Red Cow’s Stomach — TOM THUMB — How He Comes to Belong to the King — TOM THUMB — How He Carries Money to His Parents — TOM THUMB — How He Becomes Ill and Who Nurses Him — TOM THUMB — How Tom Escapes Hanging — TOM THUMB — How He is Knighted by the King — TOM THUMB — How He Goes Away and Comes Back Again — TOM THUMB — What Became of Him at Last — THE TWO BROTHERS — THE WOOING — JACK-THE-GIANT-KILLER — THE PIXIES’ THANKS — THE CAT AND THE PARROT — LAMPBLACK — LAZY JACK — THE TIME THAT WILL COME AGAIN — THE OWL’S ANSWER TO TOMMY — THE STORY OF COQUERICO — THE SCARECROW — OEYVIND AND MARIT — BLUNDER — THE GOLDEN PEARS
6. 6.SOME VERY SHORT STORIES — THE PUPPY’S BARK — WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE KITTEN — A CONCEITED GRASSHOPPER — THE MOUSE’S ESCAPE — WHAT THE WHITE HEN DID FOR THE WORLD — THE GOLDEN GOOSE — THE MOON AND HER MOTHER — MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKENS — THE STORY OF THE WEE, WEE BONE — THE MISSING LAMB — THE ANT AND THE DOVE — THE BOY AND THE NUTS — DID SHE CATCH HIM? — THE BEARS AT PLAY — HOW THE GROCER PLAYED A TRICK ON KIT — THE SHORT TALE OF THE RABBITS WHO WENT OUT TO SEE THE WORLD — THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE POT AND THE KETTLE — HOW THE TURTLE GOT HIS DINNER — THE CATERPILLAR CAUGHT IN THE RAIN — THE SONG THE COCKLE-SHELL SINGS — THE WATER-SNAIL’S RIDE — IT TAKES TIME TO GROW — THE FRIGHT THEY HAD — HIMSELF — WHY THE CANARY SANG IN HIS CAGE — WHO THE BIRD WAS — HOW THE OLD TROUT SERVED TOM — A CLEVER COW — THE SNOWMAN — THE RACE — BRAVE DAN — THE WIND’S FROLIC — THE DEAD CANARY — THE SWAN’S MEAL — THE BOY AND THE FROGS — SWEET PORRIDGE — FINDING A HOME — DID JIP DINE ON CHICKEN? — THE DOG IN THE MANGER — THE TWO APPLES — THE DOG AND THE SHADOW — THE QUARREL — WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WAX DOLL — THE ROUTING OF TOM — MRS. VIXEN AND HER CUBS AT PLAY — THE FOOLISH HOOP — HOW THE CLOCK CAME INTO THE STORY — BABY GOES ON A VOYAGE — THE RUNAWAYS — THE NAIL — THE SOAP BUBBLES — THE PEACOCK’S TAIL — HOW THE ROOSTER WAS DECEIVED — THE SHOES THAT WALKED MOST — WHAT O’CLOCK? — THE WONDERFUL CHANGE — HOW NAN AND THE MOON WENT FOR A WALK — WHAT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DID — WHAT THE MOON SAW — THE ELF WHO STAYED OUT TOO LATE — THE BOLD WEED — ODDS AND ENDS — ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S KINDNESS — THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER — THE DONKEY AND THE MULE — WHY THE MAGPIE’S NEST IS BADLY MADE — HOW BUTTERFLIES CAME — THE MONKEY DANCES — AN APRIL FOOL STORY — THE FOOLISH PUPPIES — A GOLDEN STORY — HOW THE CLOCKS PLAYED SCHOOL — HOW MOTHER TABBY PLAYED WITH HER KITTENS — THE JOKE — THE SISTERS — THE LION AND THE SHEPHERD — WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BALLOON

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