Part 25 (1/2)

The sun shone in upon hi strong and well None of his servants had coale was still singing

You will always stay withwhen it pleases you, and I will break the artificial Nightingale into a thousand pieces”

”Do not do that,” said the Nightingale ”It has done the best it could Keep it with you I cannot build my nest in a palace, but let me come just as I please I well sit on the branch near the , and sing to you that youto you of the happy folk, and of those that suffer; I will sing of the evil and of the good, which is being hidden fro bird flies hither and thither, to the poor fisherman, to the peasant's hut, to many who live far from your Court Your heart is dearer to me than your crown, and yet the crown has a breath of sanctity, too I will co you must promise me!”

”All that you ask,” said the Emperor, and stood there in his imperial robes which he had put on hiolden sword on his heart

”I beg you, let no one know that you have a little bird who tells you everything It will be far better so!”

Then the Nightingale fleay

The servants came to look upon their dead Emperor Yes, there they stood; and the E!”

THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA

There was once a Prince ished to marry a Princess, but she must be a _real_ Princess He travelled all over the world to find one, but there was always so There were plenty of Princesses, but whether they were _real_ or not he could not be sure There was always soain, feeling very sad, for he was so anxious to have a real Princess

One evening there was a terrible storhtened and thundered, and the rain caht In the ate, and the old King himself went down to open it There, outside stood a princess But what a state she was in fro out of her hair on to her clothes, into he shoes and out at the heels; and yet she said she was a _real_ Princess

”We shall soon find out about that,” thought the old Queen But she said never a word She went into the bedroom, took off all the bedclothes and put a pea on the bedstead Then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea and twenty eider-down quilts on the mattresses And the Princess was to sleep on the top of all

In thethey came to her and asked her how she had slept

”Oh! wretchedly,” said the Princess ”I scarcely closedHeaven knohat could have been in the bed! I have lain upon so hard, so that my whole body is black and blue It is quite dreadful”

They could see now that she was a _real_ Princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down quilts nobody but a real Princess could be so sensitive

So the Prince married her, for now he knew that he had found a _real_ Princess, and the pea was sent to an Art Museum, where it can still be seen, if nobody has taken it away

Now, mark you: This is a true story

PART III LIST OF STORIES BOOKS SUGGESTED TO THE STORY-TELLER AND BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE LIST OF STORIES

AUTHOR'S NOTE:--

I had intended, in this section, to offer an appendix of titles of stories and books which should cover all the ground of possible narrative in schools; but I have found sostandard books and stories, that I have decided that this original plan would be a work of supererogation What is really needed is a supplementary list to those already published--a specialized list which is the result of private research and personal experience

I have for many years spent considerable time in the British Museum and some of the principal libraries in America I now offer the fruit of my labor

LIST OF STORIES

CLassICAL STORIES

THE STORY OF THESEUS Frosley's ”Heroes”

How Theseus lifted the stone

How Theseus slew the Corynetes

How Theseus slew Sinis