Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 355
ly in the folk-stories themselves,but also in the manner of handing them down.Winter is the season for story-telling. Then thethirsty fields no longer cry for wrater, the irrigat-ing-ditches have ceased to gnaw at their banks,and the men are often at leisure. Then, ofan evening, if I go over to… … AS I COME IN, KINDLY OLD TATA LORENSO IS JUST BEGINNING A STORY. an Indian wishes to perpetuate must be saved They, too, have come a-visiting. The young by tongue and ear, by telling-down, as were men are gathered in another corner by them- the worlds first histories and poems. This oral selves,…
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