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WORLD STORIES RETOLD


[Illustration: GLAD COMRADESHIP WITH THE GLADNESS OF A CHILD]




  WORLD STORIES
  RETOLD
  FOR
  MODERN BOYS AND GIRLS

  ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN FIVE-MINUTE CLASSIC STORIES FOR
  RETELLING IN HOME, SUNDAY-SCHOOL, CHILDREN’S SERVICES, PUBLIC
  SCHOOL GRADES, AND “THE STORY-HOUR” IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES

  With Practical Suggestions for Telling

  BY

  WILLIAM JAMES SLY, PH. D.

  Director of Sunday-School and Young People’s Work, and Teacher
  of Sunday-School Pedagogy in Colorado Woman’s College

  PHILADELPHIA
  THE GRIFFITH & ROWLAND PRESS
  BOSTON    ST. LOUIS
  CHICAGO   TORONTO, CAN.




  Copyright 1914 by

  A. J. ROWLAND, Secretary

  Published December, 1914




  TO

  Ellsworth

  AND

  THE HOSTS OF BOYS AND GIRLS SCATTERED
  EVERYWHERE TO WHOM I HAVE TOLD
  MANY OF THESE STORIES AND FROM
  WHOM I HAVE RECEIVED WARM
  APPRECIATION AND LOVE




PREFACE


This book is intended chiefly for the home. It is an aid to parents in
introducing their children to some of the best stories in the world. It
will be of obvious value also to Sunday-school teachers, ministers who
preach to children, public-school teachers, kindergartners, librarians,
and to all who perceive that the