's _Original Poems_; from Thomas Day's _Sandford and
Merton_; from Bunyan's _Pilgrim's Progress_ and Lamb's _Tales from
Shakespeare_, and from many another old friend, stories may be gathered,
but the story-teller will find that in almost all cases adaptation is a
necessity. The joy of the hunt, however, is a real joy, and with a field
which stretches from the myths of Greece to _Uncle Remus_, from _Le Morte
d'Arthur_ to the _Jungle Books_, there need be no more lack of pleasure
for the seeker than for the receiver of the spoil.

* * * * *

The following is a list of valuable sources for the story-teller, all
yielding either good original material for adaptation, or stories which
need only a slight alteration in the telling.[1]

[Footnote 1: Readers may be interested in _A History of Story-telling_, by
Arthur Ransome. (Jack.)]

THE BIBLE.
MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODY. (Bullen.)
THE STORY HOUR, by _Kate Douglas Wiggin_. (Gay & Hancock.)
STORIES FOR KINDERGARTEN. (Ginn.)
ST NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, bound volumes. (Warne.)
LITTLE FOLKS, bound volumes. (Cassell.)
FABLES AND NURSERY TALES, edited by _Prof. Charles Eliot Norton_. (Heath.)
STORIES TO TELL THE LITTLEST ONES, by _Sara Gone Bryant_. (Harrap.)
MOTHER STORIES, by _Maud Lindsay_. (Harrap.)
MORE MOTHER STORIES, by _Maud Lindsay_. (Harrap.)
AESOP'S FABLES.
STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN, by _Sara Cone Bryant_. (Harrap.)
THE BOOK OF STORIES FOR THE STORY-TELLER, by _Fanny Coe_. (Harrap.)
SONGS AND STORIES FOR THE LITTLE ONES, by _Gordon Browne_. (Harrap.)
CHARACTER TRAINING (stories with an ethical bearing),
by _E.L. Cabot_ and _E. Eyles_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE STORY HOUR, by _Ada M. Marzials_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE HISTORY HOUR, by _Nannie Niemeyer_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE BIBLE HOUR, by _R. Brimley Johnson_. (Harrap.)
NATURE STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN, by _H. Waddingham Seers_. (Harrap.)
OLD TIME TALES, by _Florence Dugdale_. (Collins.)
THE MABINOGION. (Dent.)
PERCY'S RELIQUES. (Warne.)

TOLD THROUGH THE AGES SERIES. (Harrap.)
LEGENDS OF GREECE AND ROME, by _G.H. Kupfer, M.A._
FAVOURITE GREEK MYTHS, by _L.S. Hyde_.
STORIES OF ROBIN HOOD, by _J.W. McSpadden_.
STORIES OF KING ARTHUR, by _U.W. Cutler._
STORIES FROM GREEK HISTORY, by _H.L. Havell, B.A._
STORIES FROM WAGNER, by _J.W. McSpadden_.
BRITAIN LONG AGO (stories from old English and Celtic sources),
by _E.M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S._
STORIES FROM SC