Guillaume the flute player, King Midas and Marygold, August, and Hiawatha—do you see that you have become acquainted with some people you had never met before? You will perhaps find that your father and mother knew them years ago. It is strange how the boys and girls and men and women in stories become so well known. Almost anywhere you might go in our country you would find someone who knew of King Midas and of Hiawatha.

As you think back over these four stories you have read, which one did you like best? Can you give some good reasons why you liked it best? What happenings in the stories can you see almost as if you had been there? If you had to choose one of these stories to tell, which one would it be? Did any of these stories teach a good lesson? Which one was it, and what was the lesson?

Of course, there are many other stories you ought to read. And you will want to read them because it will be fun to do so. If you liked “The Golden Touch,” there are Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales and his Wonder Book. “Hiawatha’s Childhood” is only a small part of the whole poem. The Song of Hiawatha. Did you get time to read any of the other five stories in Miss Crownfield’s book The Feast of Noel? If one of your classmates were ill, and you wanted to take him some stories to read, what four or five would you choose?

If you have already found the list of other “Stories We All Should Know” on page 432, you have had many happy hours with these books. Wouldn’t you like to tell the class some good story that you have found?