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Updated: July 21, 2025
But the decrepitude of old age and the wings of youth and power are a strange mixture: a bald head, and a Fairy's swiftness! how ridiculous it seems, and so I think I may well say Time is a very odd sort of thing. Among those who have to deal with Time, few are more puzzled how to manage him than we story-tellers.
"Well, I didn't have a bit of trouble finding the river," began Toby, just as though he felt he should conduct them gradually along until the climax came, as good story-tellers do, he understood. "All I had to do was to follow my nose, and keep going ahead into the west. "I reckon the Paradise River must lie about a mile and a half over yonder; but in places the going isn't as easy as you'd like.
Old story-tellers say that he alighted on the back of a large fish, called a dolphin, which had been charmed by his music and was swimming near the ship. The dolphin carried him with great speed to the nearest shore. Then, full of joy, the musician hastened to Corinth, not stopping even to change his dress. He told his wonderful story to the king; but the king would not believe him.
From the Conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth it is difficult to discover any one beauty in our writers, but their simplicity. They told their tale, like story-tellers; that is, they related without art or ornament; and they related whatever they heard. No councils of princes, no motives of conduct, no remoter springs of action, did they investigate or learn.
Most of you, however, know little about his life, but are interested enough in him, I dare say, to wish to learn more, especially as the knowledge will give you keener delight if that is possible in reading the works of this "Prince of Story-tellers."
Vagabond ballad-singers and story-tellers creatures who wander from house to house, mending broken pottery, collecting rags or selling small pedlar's wares were the old clothesmen who carried about these bits of tarnished poetic finery.
"That is not what story-tellers like," answered Grandfather, smiling. "They are better satisfied when they can keep their auditors awake." "But here are Laurence, and Charley, and I," cried cousin Clara, who was twice as old as little Alice. "We will all three keep wide awake. And pray, Grandfather, tell us a story about this strange-looking old chair."
And this in spite of their great reverence for Leskov, the greatest of Russian story-tellers. But of Leskov they have only imitated the style, not his art of narrative. The perfective is the ordinary style of an honest narrative. The "imperfective" is where nothing definitely happens but only goes on indefinitely "becoming." But never has this "imperfective" been so exclusively paramount as now.
"We could put up a large reception-hall with a portion of our capital, and advertise a series of nights say one a week throughout the season. These would be Warriors' Night, Story-tellers' Night, Poets' Night, Chafing-dish Night under the charge of Brillat-Savarin, and so on.
Some of these have fallen into my hands, by an accident which it is needless at present to mention; and one of these very stories, with its prelude in the words of Mr. Knickerbocker, I undertook to read, by way of acquitting myself of the debt which I owed to the other story-tellers at the Hall. I subjoin it, for such of my readers as are fond of stories.
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