HOW TO TELL STORIES
TO CHILDREN
AND SOME STORIES TO TELL
BY SARA CONE BRYANT
To My Mother
THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS
DEDICATED
PREFACE
The stories which are given in the following
pages are for the most part those which I have
found to be best liked by the children to whom
I have told these and others. I have tried to
reproduce the form in which I actually tell
them,--although that inevitably varies with
every repetition,--feeling that it would be of
greater value to another story-teller than a
more closely literary form.
For the same reason, I have confined my
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