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The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten (Classic Reprint)
The Story Hour A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten - Classic Reprint Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin Excerpt from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten — Story-telling, like letter-writing, is going out of fashion. There are no modern Scheherezades, and the Sultans nowadays have to be amused in a different fashion. But, for that matter, a hundred poetic pastimes of leisure have fled before the relentless Hurry Demon who govern... more »s this prosaic nineteenth century. The Wandering Minstrel is gone, and the Troubadour, and the Court of Love, and the King's Fool, and the Round Table, and with them the Story-Teller.
"Come, tell us a story!' It is the familiar plea of childhood. Unhappy he who has not been assailed with it again and again. Thrice miserable she who can be consigned to worse than oblivion by the scathing criticism, "She does n't know any stories!' and thrice blessed she who is recognized at a glance as a person likely to be full to the brim of them.
There are few preliminaries and no formalities when the Person with a Story is found.
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