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Then pretty soon she climbs into the Story Teller's lap and leans back, and looks into the fire and thinks some more. "Did the Hollow Tree people ever go to school?" she says. "I s'pose they did, though, or they wouldn't know how to read and write, and send invitations and things." The Story Teller knocks the ashes out of his pipe and lays it on the little stand beside him.
Many other traits of the race have been borne to the present time with little change. Then as now the habitant was a voluble talker, a teller of great stories about his own feats and experiences. Hocquart was impressed with the scant popular regard for the truth in such things, and well he may have been. Even to-day this trait has not wholly disappeared.
His perquisites, as Teller of the Exchequer, were lessened by the assignment of taxes to the bankers in return for their advances, and as the proceeds of the taxes did not pass through the Exchequer, the percentage to the Tellers was thereby diminished. The position of Lord Southampton was difficult to assail.
Anyone who has watched, or has himself been, the teller of a story which held an audience, knows that there is something approaching hypnotic suggestion in the close connection of effort and effect, and in the elimination of self-consciousness from speaker and listeners alike.
At the Council board, where the King had now found voice, one alone sat humorously interested and amused the Minister of Fine Arts. He was not an artist himself had he been he would never have been allowed to occupy that position; he was a Professor of History, Teller by name, and more than any of his fellow-ministers he studied life.
"What is it?" we asked, smiling at her enthusiasm. "We'll have a fortune teller," she cried. "Aunt Josephine, you shall play the part." "All right, if you really want me," consented Aunt Josephine smiling indulgently as we urged her. Down in the submarine harbor that afternoon, Del Mar and his men were seated about the conference table.
Then one of our men, who had stood next to me, spoke for me, as he thought. "I saw Wulfric sign Thor's hammer even now. What more does any man want from a Saxon?" Thereat Ingvar scowled, knowing, as I think, what this was. "You claim to be truth teller," he said; "did you sign Thor's hammer?" "I did not," I answered. Then Halfden came to my side. "Let Wulfric go his own way, brother.
Although he had not risen above the position of paying teller, Thomas Leffingwell had a unique place in the city of his birth; and the esteem in which he was held by capitalists and clerks proves that character counts for something. On his father's failure and death he had entered the Prairie Bank, at eighteen, and never left it.
When I shall feel that this intimacy ceases, then I shall know that the old horse should be turned out to grass. That I shall feel it when I ought to feel it, I will by no means say. I do not know that I am at all wiser than Gil Blas' canon; but I do know that the power indicated is one without which the teller of tales cannot tell them to any good effect.
All of which is very depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life. Let me set down an instance of the comic method, using an anecdote which has been popular all over the world for twelve or fifteen hundred years. The teller tells it in this way:
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