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Title: Stories to Tell Children
Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling

Author: Sara Cone Bryant

Release Date: September 14, 2005 [EBook #16693]

Language: English

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[Illustration: STORY-TELLING TIME

George Cruikshank]

STORIES TO TELL TO
CHILDREN

FIFTY-FOUR STORIES WITH SOME
SUGGESTIONS FOR TELLING

BY

SARA CONE BRYANT
AUTHOR OF "HOW TO TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN"

[Illustration]

LONDON
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD.
2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
1918

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
GREAT BRITAIN

PREFACE

This little book came into being at the instance of my teaching friends.
Their requests for more stories of the kind which were given in _How to
Tell Stories to Children_, and especially their urging that the stories
they liked, in my telling, should be set down in print, seemed to
justify the hope that the collection would be genuinely useful to them.
That it may be, is the earnest desire with which it is offered. I hope
it will be found to contain some stories which are new to the teachers
and friends of little children, and some which are familiar, but in an
easier form for telling than is usual. And I shall indeed be content if
its value to those who read it is proportionate to the pleasure and
mental stimulus which has come to me in the work among pupils and
teachers which accompanied its preparation.

Among the publishers and authors whose kindness enabled me to quote
material are Mr John Murray and Miss Mary Frere, to whom I am indebted
for the four stories of the Little Jackal; Messrs Little, Brown &
Company and the Alcott heirs, who allowed me the use of Louisa Alcott's
poem, _My Kingdom_; and Dr Douglas Hyde, whose letter of permission to
use his Irish material was in itself a literary treasure. To the
charming friend who gave me the outline of _Epaminondas_, as told he