The ideal position for the story-teller is to be seated opposite the center of the semicircle of listeners, facing them.
For the return should originate, not in imitation of what the teller plans, but spontaneously, as the child's own plan, answering to some felt need of his.
The extreme nearness of the group, when the teller seeks the fingers of the listeners to add force to the telling, seems an infringement upon the child's personal rights.
Attention to the power of phonics to contribute to the emotional force and to the strength of meaning in the tale, will reveal to the story-teller many new beauties.
If before the telling the story-teller has asked herself, "What variety of creative reaction will this tale arouse in the child?
The selection of the story-teller and the story or stories might be the result of a previous story contest.
This power of life will enable the story-teller to enter, at the same time, into the life of the story she tells, and the life of those listening, to see the gift of the one and the need of the other.
The story-teller must wholly take into himself the life of which he speaks, must let it live and operate in himself freely.
But that does not prevent the story-teller from using her own imagination, and through it, from realizing what opportunities for growth the story presents, and what possible activities ought to be stimulated.
Now he takes a pair of lovers out for an airing, and now he drives the absconding bank-teller to the railway-station.
He walks on safe ground, eluding many of the perils that beset the story-teller who ventures to stray beyond the bounds of the make-believe.
The words were on her lips that should reveal Hertha's birth, but her instinct as a story-teller held her back.
During my banishment, Senator Teller had been confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, an appointment that augured well for the future of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Cattle Company.
Delivery is made to the second assortment teller in a manner similar to that already described.
Of this number, those employed in handling money are divided into two forces, under the direction, respectively, of the receiving teller and the assorting teller.
For this purpose the currency of active banks is delivered from the assorters through the teller to a "maker-up" who takes an inventory.
Even the fortune-teller knows not his own fate," is a Japanese saying quoted by Hearn in connection with the incident.
This is evidently an old tale in which the story-teller introduces modern ideas.
There are evenings when the recognized wit or story-teller of the village gives a free entertainment which keeps the rest of the community in a convulsive state until he leaves them.
You see the fortune-teller yonder at farder end ath chamber: go toward him, do what you will with him; he shall ne'er find you.
I have as big a heart to marry as you can have; but as the Fortune- teller told me-- PENNY.
Where else had one seen just those rows of white-turbaned majestic figures, squatting in the dust under lofty walls, all the pale faces ringed in curling beards turned to the story-teller in the centre of the group?
Thou alone art all-perceiving and persuasive, alone art Truth Teller to a bewildered youth and Good Example in his wondering sight: be then Good Example and Teller of Truth to this youth.
And as I know that it was gathered by a witch and fortune-teller among others, and carefully compared and collated, I am sure that it is authentic and traditional.
Your Aunt Allison has consented to play fortune-teller for us.
Don't you think it will help you to be a better tale-teller for the children, some day, my little 'Tusitala?
He had met Robert Louis Stevenson once, the tale-teller of Eugenia's story, and he well understood the influence of that noble life over the old chiefs who called him "brother.
It is plainly impossible for a fortune-teller to defraud a sceptic, otherwise than by telling him the truth.
The Future The recent decision that, if a fortune-teller honestly believes what she is saying, she is not defrauding her client, may be good law, but it does not sound like good sense.
For instance, a fortune-teller may inform you, having pocketed your two guineas, that a rich uncle in Australia is going to leave you a million pounds next year.
To a layman like myself it would seem more sensible to say that, if the client honestly believes what the fortune-teller is saying, then the client is not being defrauded.
She doesn't promise you the million pounds herself; obviously that is coming to you anyhow, fortune-teller or no fortune-teller.
The fortune-teller has done her part; she has given you a year's happiness for two guineas.
The guard nodded his head on the fear-stiffened hinge of his neck and looked down at Eckland in the far cage, the only teller on now.
Had herded the guard into a corner where he was hidden from the teller as well as any passersby.
Especially that tellerdown at the end window, Eckland.
The guard pointed toward the electrically controled door in the teller cage partition that cut off the offices and vault from the customers' side.
The hospital says Eckland the teller will pull through.
So the Japanese story-teller would have us believe,-- although the verses seem commonplace in translation.
This boy was the first Hubilgan, also an incarnate Buddha, an artful teller of fortunes and the successor of Pandita Hutuktu.
After the fortune teller had burned all her grass, she placed the bird bones on the charcoal and turned them over again and again with a small pair of bronze pincers.
Afterwards I learned that she was a famous fortune teller and prophet among the Buriats, the daughter of a gypsy woman and a Buriat.
It was the man "with the head like a saddle," against whom I had been warned by the old fortune teller at the last ourton outside Van Kure!
The next morning we left the fortune teller before the sun was up, and, when we had made about fifteen miles, hove in sight of Van Kure.
She wants you to be the gypsy fortune-teller at her bazaar.
You know, I asked you, Bab, to play gypsy fortune-teller at my bazaar; now I want to ask Ruth to join you.
