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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
narrative and do not be afraid to take all the parts, and to act
each one in turn.

4. _Impress the story._ Remember that the story is the main thing
and that the moral point is secondary. Do not make the story a
sermon, and do not dwell severely upon its ethical features. If the
story is amusing let it be without moral value. If it is historical
let it remain so. Generally speaking you can bring out the moral
features in a few words at the close. Children do not like too much
sermonizing.

5. _Use the story._ If the story lends itself to dramatization, by
all means let the children act the parts; if it is a good language
exercise, let them tell it or write it in their own words; if it
can be illustrated let them draw pictures on the board or at their
seats; if it can be used for handwork in any way, let them make
what they can.

6. _Enjoy the story._ Make it worth while for pupils to be punctual
in order to hear the story; recur often to past stories when
occasion recalls them to mind; let the imagination play around all
the incidents so that the mind will be filled with those images
that have been the joy of childhood since the world began.

  Augusta. Ga.                                    LAWTON B. EVANS.




CONTENTS


                                                      PAGE

  ABRAHAM AND ISAAC                                    185
  ABRAHAM LINCOLN (FEB. 12TH)                          281
  ABSALOM                                              322
  ADVENTURES OF PERSEUS, THE, PART ONE                  43
  ADVENTURES OF PERSEUS, THE, PART TWO                  46
  ADVENTURES OF THESEUS, THE, PART ONE                  92
  ADVENTURES OF THESEUS, THE, PART TWO                  94
  ADVENTURES OF THOR, THE                              103
  ALL FOOLS’ DAY (APRIL 1ST)                           346
  AN ARMY OF TWO                                       130
  ANDROCLUS AND THE LION                                17
  ANTONIO CANOVA                                       196
  APPLE TREE’S CHILDREN, THE                            39

  BAD-TEMPERED SQUIRREL, THE                             8
  BAKER BOYS AND THE BEES, THE                         409
  BARMECIDE FEAST, THE                                 353
  BEAUTIFUL HAND, THE                                    1
  BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, PART ONE                       260
  BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, PART TWO                       262
  BELL OF ATRI, THE                                    344
  BENNY IN BEASTLAND                                   269
  BEOWULF CONQUERS THE MARSH MONSTER                   187
  BEOWULF SLAYS THE FIRE DRAGON                        192
  BEOWULF SLAYS THE WATER WITCH                        189
  BINDING OF FENRIR, THE                               110
  BIRTH OF JESUS, THE                                  156
  BLIND MAN AND THE ELEPHANT, THE                        5
  BLUE RIBBON, THE                                      41
  BOBBIE, THE POWDER BOY                                89
  BOYHOOD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE (FEB. 22ND)        315
  BOY WHO CRIED WOLF, THE                              279
  BOY WHO WANTED TO PLAY ALWAYS, THE                    34
  BRUCE AND THE SPIDER                                  21

  CERES AND HER DAUGHTER                               218
  CINDERELLA                                           383
  COLUMBUS (DISCOVERY DAY, OCT. 12TH)                   48
  COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE, THE                405
  DAMON AND PYTHIAS                                    133
  DAVID AND GOLIATH                                     50
  DEATH OF BEOWULF, THE                                194
  DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT, PART ONE               369
  DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT, PART TWO               371
  DIRTY TOM                                             19
  DISCONTENTED MEMBERS, THE                              3
  DISCONTENTED TAILOR, THE                             180
  DISOBEDIENT DICKY BIRD, A                            237
  DOG’S GRATITUDE, A                                   412
  DOROTHY’S DREAM OF HAPPINESS                         255
  DRAGON SLAYER, THE                                   161
  DUMMLING’S GOOSE                                     381
  DUMMLING’S REQUEST                                   378

  EGYPTIANS ARE DROWNED IN THE RED SEA, THE            140
  ELEPHANT’S TRUNK, THE                                 82

  FAIRY FISH QUEEN, THE                                416
  FAITHFUL BRUNO                                       