This story provoked so much laughter that the jaws of every one in the company ached; and all the ladies by common consent acknowledged that Dioneo was right, and pronounced Bernabo a blockhead.
This story, so congruous, so consistent in every detail, came trippingly and without the least hesitancy from her tongue.
Her name I know, but will not disclose it, nor yet that of any other who figures in this story, because there yet live those who might take offence thereat, though after all it might well be passed off with a laugh.
But enough of this story: 'tis time for me to cut it short, and return to those, for whose instruction 'tis told.
By extraordinary circumstances he and another connected with him are to take no small part in this story, which is a sufficient excuse for his introduction.
This story, strange as it may seem, had a great success at Mr. Merrill's table.
It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story.
Unfortunately there is not much room for Miss Broke in this story, although she may appear in another one yet to be written.
Uproarious laughter greeted the end of this story, and continued in fits as some humorous point recurred to one or the other of the listeners.
The rest of this story tells of the amours of the girl and a black, who, at her instigation, kills her eldest brother, but he is resuscitated by the Water of Life.
This story is a compound of two distinct tales, namely, the Dream of Riches and the Quest of the Ninth Image.
The king was amazed at this story and at all that had happened.
In Croker's Irish Fairy Legends there is a droll version, of this story, entitled "Dreaming Tim Jarvis.
The fact of this story of the quest of the lacking image being found in the Persian language is another proof that the tales in The Nights were largely derived from Persian story-books.
FN#235] This story will be found translated in my "Book at the Thousand Nights and One Night,' Vol.
I won't so wrong my dear father's memory at the bidding of this man, whose interest it is to trump up this story, since he and his son become the owners of a great estate in my place.
While traveling in America, I was provided with a delightful appendix to this story.
Now, quite apart from the folly of this story we must condemn it on moral grounds.
I consider that the end of this storyis one of the most remarkable I have found in my long years of browsing among fairy tales.
This story is to be found in a little book called "Very Short Stories," a most interesting collection for teachers and children.
Another of the boys in the little group that had just listened to this story, after hearing it, said: 'You bet your life it never hurts a fellow to be friendly with anybody.
A friend of mine once told me this story: "I was once opened up in an adjoining room to a clothing man's.
A clothing salesman told me this story: "I have been chasing trunks for a long time but last season I got into the worst scrape of all my life on the road.
There are obvious reminiscences inthis story of Damon and Pythias, and of the classical instances of sacrifice at the divine command.
This story may be compared with the Celtic legend of the boyhood of Peredur or Perceval.
This story is repeated in great and varying detail in sundry books by Afghans, the oldest of which appears to be of the 16th century; nor do we know that any trace of the legend is found of older date.
There are difficulties in this story, of which the following are the principal:--(i.
This story of Abram and his increased wealth (xiii.
And when the cake was baked they gave the kind elephant some to take to the codfish ball with him, and that's the end of this story, if you please.
Well, now, if I leave the elephant out of this story I promise that I'll give each one of you an ice cream cone with a raisin in it.
Then they ran home to dinner and that's all there is to this story.
STORY VI FLOP AND THE BAG OF MEAL Now, let me see, I promised to put in this story, something about the elephant; didn't I?
Woden's wooing is the best part of this story, half spoilt, however, by euhemeristic tone and lack of epic dignity.
Still, as the true centre of this story is in Holland, it is full time to return thither, and to those ordinary personages and incidents whereof life has been mainly composed in all ages.
And so, in this story, what tremendous consequences of that one heartless falsehood!
When I had finished the recital ofthis story to the genie, the murderer of the princess of the isle of Ebone, I made the application to himself thus: O genie!
Sister, says Dinarzade, I know not what the conclusion of this story will be, but I find the beginning very surprising.
Sister, says Dinarzade, this story promises a great deal; I fancy the rest of it must be very extraordinary.
This story is certainly more surprising than the former.
Sister, says Dinarzade, I must confess that the beginning of this story charms me, and I foresee that the result of it will be very agreeable.
It was an atmospheric impression of this nature which associated itself with a terrible shock experienced by the infant which became the subject of this story.
There was no dramatic ending to this story,--at least none is remembered by the present writer.
A very wise and very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literature as he is in science and the practice of medicine, wrote to me in referring to this story: "I should have been afraid of my subject.
I wonder why some of those newspaper men don't come up here and get hold of this story.
As Mark Twain first heard it, this story was a solemn recital of an interesting incident in the life of Angel's Camp.
Thus he clinched the "moral" of this story, so quaint and so ingenious; and concluded that only in some such way as this could one be fortified against further commission of crime.
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