beautiful story!" and the periods sigh, "This is all for to-day."

At this point--where the dog Moufflou returns to his little master--we
remember that Carlotty Griggs clapped her ebony hands, and shrieked in
transport, "I KNOWED HE'D come! _I_ KNOWED he'd come!"

Here is the place where we remarked impressively, "A lie, children, is
the very worst thing in the world!" whereupon Billy interrogated, with
wide eyes and awed voice, "IS IT WORSE THAN A RAILROAD CROSSING?" And
there is a sentence in the story of the "Bird's Nest" sacred to the
memory of Tommy's tear!--Tommy of the callous conscience and the
marble heart. Tommy's dull eye washed for one brief moment by the
salutary tear! Truly the humble Story-Teller has not lived in vain.
Sing, ye morning stars, together, for this is the spot where Tommy
cried!

If you would be the Person with a Story, you must not only have one to
tell, but you must be willing to learn how to tell it, if you wish to
make it a "rememberable thing" to children. The Story-Teller, unlike
the poet, is made as well as born, but he is not made of all stuffs
nor in the twinkling of an eye. In this respect he is very like the
Ichneumon in the nonsense rhyme:--

"There once was an idle Ichneumon
Who thought he could learn to play Schumann;
But he found, to his pains,
It took talent and brains,
And neither possessed this Ichneumon."

To be effective, the story in the kindergarten should always be told,