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 happiness of working on stories and the telling
of them, among teachers and students in many parts, and in that
experience certain secondary points of method have come to seem more
important, or at least more in need of emphasis, than they did before.
As so often happens, I had assumed that "those things are taken for
granted"; whereas, to the beginner or the teacher not naturally a
story-teller, the secondary or implied technique is often of greater
difficulty than the mastery of underlying principles. The few
suggestions which follow are of this practical, obvious kind.