SEE MALLERY, RICHARD D. Joke tellers joke book.

" "Why's that?" "Oh, battles are over and blood-feuds are done, but the need for a story-teller abides.

Its precursors were the stories of story-tellers centuries ago.

Dumas' literary work is essentially romantic; his themes are courage, loyalty, honour, love, pageantry, and adventure; he belongs to the tradition of Scott and Schiller, but as a story-teller excels every other.

"There is a tradition in our family," said Oloff Van Staats, his eye lighting with a mysterious excitement, while he affected to laugh at the folly he uttered, "that the great Poughkeepsie fortune-teller foretold, in the presence of my grandmother, that a Patroon of Kinderhook should intermarry with a witch.

"You must be going to be married, captain," Sam heard the teller remark jocularly.