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Updated: June 7, 2025
Bismillah! he wills it so. If the story-teller becomes prolix and tedious the bow-string and the sack, and two Nubians to drop him into the Piscataqua! But truly, Jack, I have a hard task. There is literally nothing here except the little girl over the way. She is swinging in the hammock at this moment.
Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide', her story-teller, she could discover nothing about a lady who had been known as the Black Duck. But one night when Mongan seemed to speak with Duv Laca he mentioned her father as Fiachna Duv mac Demain, and the story-teller said that king had been dead for a vast number of years.
"Mr. Dodd," said Lucy, "now I see why Eastern kings have a story-teller always about them a live story-teller. Would not you have one, Miss Dodd, if you were Queen of Persia?" "Me? I'd have a couple one to make me laugh; one miserable." "One would be enough if his resources were equal to your brother's. Pray go on, Mr. Dodd. It was madness to interrupt you with small talk."
When they become women in reality, they are rather too apt to go upon the opposite tack, and to assume the dress and airs of the girl. A well-made man always looks shorter than he is; ditto a well-made woman. A story-teller, or dealer in anecdote, is an abomination that ought to be expelled from all well-regulated societies.
If a story-teller is prolific, the danger of his characters coinciding with those of people in real life who are unknown to him is much greater than would be imagined; the mere similarity of name may of course be disregarded; but when in addition to that there is also a resemblance of circumstance, it is difficult to persuade the man of flesh and blood that his portrait is an undesigned one.
The seven men and seven women of the Fairy Palace then took their places about him in a half-circle; his own seven guards sat behind them; his wife, the Flame Lady, sat by his side; and at the back of all Cairid, his story-teller sat, listening with all his ears, and remembering every word that was uttered.
When he used to begin a tale you could not stir from the spot all day, but kept on listening. He was not like the story-teller of the present day, when he begins to lie, with a tongue as though he had had nothing to eat for three days, so that you snatch your cap and flee from the house.
"Ah! gentlemen," said the Burgundian, gravely, "we cannot leave without seeing the hostess, and if we do not ask to kiss this famous wind-instrument, it is a out of respect for so good a story-teller." Thereupon they all exalted the host, his story, and his wife's trumpet so well that the old fellow, believing in these knaves' laughter and pompous eulogies, called to his wife.
I should say that it may often contribute towards an air of ineffectiveness in a story, which it might otherwise be difficult to explain. The fiction of Turgenev is on the whole a case in point, to my mind. Turgenev was never shy of appearing in his pages as the reflective story-teller, imparting the fruits of his observation to the reader.
"Singular people in this country," he resumed; but his cigar would not revive. He was a poor story-teller.
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