Excerpt from Story-Telling Poems: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading There is an inexhaustible source of fine story-telling material to be found in narrative poetry. Fables, myths, legends, tales, roman tic or historical in treatment, are told in rhythmic form, and often in a logical manner that makes it easy to retell the plots. If the story-teller learns her story by read ing over and over again a ballad or other story-telling poem, and retells the same in simple prose paraphrase, she will find that her vocabulary is enriched, and that the rhythm of the original lends a swing and added charm to her prose rendering of the poem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.