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I ought to mention here that the following is our way with a story: First, I tell it to him, and then he tells it to me, the understanding being that it is quite a different story; and then I retell it with his additions, and so we go on until no one could say whether it is more his story or mine.
In order properly to retell it, a contemporary witness shall be called upon to testify in the case of the Stone-Throwing Devils of Newcastle. It is the Rev. The glass windows were broken by the stones that came not from without, but from within; and other instruments were in a like manner hurled about.
Johnnie Dunn and "Marthy" were the first, the former eager to retell the manner of her introduction of Allister to his family. The McKenzies, who lived on the next farm above, were all there, and Bruce was helping Ellen carry chairs out to the veranda. The Browns, a big family who lived just across the road from the Lindsays, were in the kitchen, and young Mr.
"I am glad to see you," he said. "All are well, I hope, at both our homes?" "Quite well, sir." "Thank God for that! Now, I must leave you to see that our work is thoroughly carried out. You will find your waggons safe, a quarter of a mile along the road. I will leave you to tell all the home news to Walter, who will retell it to me afterwards."
Both Goudie and Henry lived to retell their tale in 1891, when the Canadian government put up a tablet to commemorate what pioneering work the Royal William had done, both for the inter-colonial and inter-imperial connection.
Why had not I thought of it sooner? I undressed, and in less time than it takes to retell it, I was in the water and striking straight for Rita's Isle. When I got there, I sunned myself on the rocks, as was my wont.
But Fate, if not Nature, had decided that I was a better writer than fighter, and the Bank of Tennessee having bought a newspaper outfit at Chattanooga, I was sent there to edit The Rebel my own naming established as the organ of the Tennessee state government. I made it the organ of the army. It is not the purpose of these pages to retell the well-known story of the war.
He waited for Adelle to tell her story, and presently she began. "Judge Orcutt," she said, "I want to tell you something and ask your advice because I feel that you will know what to do." With this introduction she proceeded to retell her story, the one she had told that morning to the officers of the trust company.
We have entertained Santa Claus for ages without undermining the morals of our children. And we shall continue to retell the fairy stories, for, although they are not, strictly speaking, "true" stories, they have their place in the life of the child. Why can we not go on, then, as we have done in the past, leaning upon the stork?
Now that he was telling it all to Natasha he experienced that pleasure which a man has when women listen to him not clever women who when listening either try to remember what they hear to enrich their minds and when opportunity offers to retell it, or who wish to adopt it to some thought of their own and promptly contribute their own clever comments prepared in their little mental workshop but the pleasure given by real women gifted with a capacity to select and absorb the very best a man shows of himself.
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