A TRUE STORY ABOUT A GIRL (Louisa Alcott) 108

MY KINGDOM 113

PICCOLA 115

THE LITTLE FIR TREE 116

HOW MOSES WAS SAVED 122

THE TEN FAIRIES 126

THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER 130

WHO KILLED THE OTTER'S BABIES? 133

EARLY 136

THE BRAHMIN, THE TIGER, AND THE JACKAL 137

THE LITTLE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL 144

THE GULLS OF SALT LAKE 147

THE NIGHTINGALE 150

MARGERY'S GARDEN 159

THE LITTLE COTYLEDONS 171

THE TALKATIVE TORTOISE 176

ROBERT OF SICILY 178

THE JEALOUS COURTIERS 185

PRINCE CHERRY 189

THE GOLD IN THE ORCHARD 199

MARGARET OF NEW ORLEANS 200

THE DAGDA'S HARP 204

THE TAILOR AND THE THREE BEASTS 208

HOW THE SEA BECAME SALT 215

THE CASTLE OF FORTUNE 220

DAVID AND GOLIATH 227

THE SHEPHERD'S SONG 233

THE HIDDEN SERVANTS 236

LITTLE GOTTLIEB 243

HOW THE FIR TREE BECAME THE CHRISTMAS TREE 246

THE DIAMOND AND THE DEWDROP 248

SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STORY-TELLER

Concerning the fundamental points of method in telling a story, I have
little to add to the principles which I have already stated[1] as
necessary, in my opinion, in the book of which this is, in a way, the
continuation. But in the two years which have passed since that book was
written, I have had the hap