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                        WORTH WHILE STORIES
                           FOR EVERY DAY

                  ARRANGED, COMPILED, AND EDITED
                                BY
                       LAWTON B. EVANS, A.M.

            WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE TEACHERS OF THE
                   PRIMARY GRADES OF THE PUBLIC
                      SCHOOLS OF AUGUSTA, GA.

                               1923
                      MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
                        SPRINGFIELD, MASS.




                         COPYRIGHT, 1917,
                    BY MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY,
                        SPRINGFIELD, MASS.


                      _Bradley Quality Books_

              PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




A WORD TO STORY TELLERS


In order to make story-telling most effective, the story-teller
should bear in mind certain conditions that are imposed by those
who listen.

1. _Know the story._ Know it well enough to tell it in your own
language, and in the language of the children who hear it. Know it
well enough to amplify, vary, improve, make all kinds of excursions
and side incidents, and yet return easily to the main body of the
story.

2. _Tell the story._ Do not read it. The speaker is free and
unbound by book or words; the reader is held by the formal page
before him. The stories in this book are condensed, too condensed
for reading and need the addition of words to make them of the
right consistency. Those words should be the narrator’s own; the
story then becomes the narrator’s story and not the author’s, and
that is as it should be.

3. _Act the story._ Do not be afraid of the dramatic side of
narration. Imitate all the sounds that belong to the story, such
as the winds blowing, the thunder rolling, a bear growling, a dog
barking, etc. Change your voice to meet the requirements of youth
and age. Throw yourself heart and soul into the spirit of the
narr