He was the tallest and bravest and handsomest young man in the tribe -- '' `` Why is it they 're always so handsome in stories ? '' asked Dan . `` Why are there never no stories about ugly people ? '' `` Perhaps ugly people never have stories happen to them , '' suggested Felicity . `` I think they 're just as interesting as the handsome people , '' retorted Dan . `` Well , maybe they are in real life , '' said Cecily , `` but in stories it 's just as easy to make them handsome as not . I like them best that way . I just love to read a story where the heroine is beautiful as a dream . '' `` Pretty people are always conceited , '' said Felix , who was getting tired of holding his tongue . `` The heroes in stories are always nice , '' said Felicity , with apparent irrelevance . `` They 're always so tall and slender . Would n't it be awful funny if any one wrote a story about a fat hero -- or about one with too big a mouth ? '' `` It does n't matter what a man LOOKS like , '' I said , feeling that Felix and Dan were catching it rather too hotly . `` He must be a good sort of chap and DO heaps of things . That 's all that 's necessary . '' `` Do any of you happen to want to hear the rest of my story ? '' asked the Story Girl in an ominously polite voice that recalled us to a sense of our bad manners . We apologized and promised to behave better ; she went on , appeased : `` Accadee was all these things that I have mentioned , and he was the best hunter in the tribe besides . Never an arrow of his that did not go straight to the mark . Many and many a snow white moose he shot , and gave the beautiful skin to his sweetheart .
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