Types of Prose Narratives

List of Stories

Narratives of Fictitious Events

Myths

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The World’s Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen	From the Kalevala	14
Students’ Themes—
Origin of the Moon	Emanuel Baja	16
The First Cocoanut Tree	Manuel Reyes	18
The Lotus	Ida Treat	21

Legends

Kenach’s Little Woman	William Canton	28
Students’ Themes—
A Legend of Gapan	Teofilo Corpus	36
Manca: a Legend of the Incas	Dorothea Knoblock	38
The Place of the Red Grass	Sixto Guico	42

Fairy Tales

The Boggart	From the English	55
Students’ Themes—
Cafre and the Fisherman’s Wife	Benito Ebuen	57
The Friendship of an Asuang and a Duende	Emanuel Baja	58
A Tianac Frightens Juan	Santiago Ochoa	61
The Black Cloth of the Calumpang	Eusebio Ramos	63

Nursery Tales

Princess Helena the Fair	From the Russian	69
Students’ Themes—
Juan the Guesser	Bienvenido Gonzalez	73
The Shepherd who became King	Vicente Hilario	78

Fables

Jupiter and the Countryman	From the Spectator	90
The Drop of Water (Persian)	From the Spectator	91
The Grandee at the Judgment Seat	Kriloff	91
The Lion and the Old Hare	From the Hitopadesa	92
The Fox and the Crab	From the Turkish	93
The Fool who Sells Wisdom	From the Turkish	94
The Archer and the Trumpeter	From the Turkish	95
Students’ Themes—
The Courtship of Sir Butterfly	Maximo M. Kalaw	96
The Hat and the Shoes	José R. Perez	98
The Crocodile and the Peahen	Elisa Esguerra	99
The Old Man, his Son, and his Grandson	Eutiquiano Garcia	100

Parables

The Three Questions	Tolstoy	104
Students’ Themes—
A Master and his Servant	Eusebio Ramos	110
The Parable of the Beggar and the Givers	Dorothea Knoblock	111

Allegories

The Artist	Oscar Wilde	120
The House of Judgment	Oscar Wilde	120
Students’ Themes—
The Chain that Binds	Elizabeth Sudborough	123
The Love which Surpassed All Other Loves	Florence Gifford	125

Tales of Mere Wonder

The Story of the City of Brass	From the Arabian Nights	132
Student’s Theme—
The Magic Ring, the Bird, and the Basket	Facundo Esquivel	147

Imaginary Voyages

Mellonta Tauta	Edgar Allan Poe	155
Student’s Theme—
Busyong’s Trip to Jupiter	Manuel Candido	173

Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention

A Curious Vehicle	Alexander Wilson Drake	200
Students’ Themes—
The Spyglass of the Past	Hazel Orcutt	218
Up a Water Spout	Edna Collister	221

Detective Story and Tale of Mere Plot

Thou Art the Man	Edgar Allan Poe	228
Student’s Theme—
The Picture of Lhasa	Hazel Orcutt	248

Tales of More-or-Less Probable Adventure

Fight with a Bear	Charles Reade	257
Student’s Theme—
Secret of the Jade Tlaloc	Dorothea Knoblock	267

Society Stories

The Fur Coat	Ludwig Fulda	277
Student’s Theme—
The Lady in Pink	Wilma I. Ball	289

Humorous Stories

The Expatriation of Jonathan Taintor	Charles Battell Loomis	302
Students’ Themes—
Kileto and the Physician	Lorenzo Licup	307
The Lame Man and the Deaf Family	Santiago Rotea	311

Occasional Stories

The Lost Child	François Coppée	315
Students’ Themes—
The Peace of Yesterdays	Katherine Kurz	334
A Christmas Legend	Ida F. Treat	342

Moral Story

Jeannot and Colin Voltaire 348

Pedagogical Narratives

Gertrude’s Method of Instruction	Pestalozzi	365
Student’s Theme—
Lawin-lawinan (a Filipino game)	Leopoldo Uichanco	368

Stories of Present-Day Realism

The Piece of String	Maupassant	374
Students’ Themes—
A Social Error	Ida Treat	382
The Lot of the Poor	Agnes Palmer	388
Filipino Fear	Walfrido de Leon	390

Psychological Weird Tales

The Signal-Man	Charles Dickens	403
Student’s Theme—
Like a Thief in the Night	Dorothea Knoblock	420

Stories That Emphasize Character and Environment

Muhammad Din	Rudyard Kipling	432
Students’ Themes—
The Fetters	Katherine Kurz	436
When Terry Quit	Dorothea Knoblock	446
Nora Titay and Chiquito	Joaquina E. Tirona	453

Stories That Emphasize Character and Events

The Necklace	Maupassant	460
Student’s Theme—
Andong	Justo Avila	470

Narratives of Actual Events

Incidents

A Near Tragedy	Fielding	482
An Incident before Sadowa: Birds Divulge Army Secrets	Newspaper	483
An Incident Related in a Letter	Robert Louis Stevenson	484
Students’ Themes—
A Hero Dead	Ida Treat	485
My First Day at School	Máximo Kalaw	487
The Guinatan Prize	Leopoldo Faustino	488

Anecdotes

Coleridge’s Retort		493
An Inevitable Misfortune		494
A Point Needing to be Settled		494
Patience		494
Preaching and Practice		495
Johnson’s Dictionary		495
The Boy Kipling		496
Sir Godfrey Kneller	Spence	496
Pope and the Trader	Spence	497
The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers	José Feliciano	497
An Instance of Bamboo Spanish	Pilar Ejercito	498
Mr. Taft’s Mistake	Amando Clements	499

Eye-Witness Accounts

The Portuguese Revolution	Newspaper	503
Student’s Theme—
A Contrast	Adolfo Scheerer	509

Tales of Actual Adventures

The Bear Hunt	Tolstoy	514
Students’ Themes—
Saladin and I Fight an Alupong	Cecilio Esquivel	525
I Get Two Beatings	Facundo Esquivel	527
The Fall of Juan	Gregorio Farrales	528
A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao	José Cariño	529

Travellers’ Sketches

On the Way to Talavera	George Borrow	534
Smyrna—First Glimpses of the East Thackeray		539
Student’s Theme—
A Trip from Curimao to Laoag	Fernando Maramag	551

Journals and Diaries

Extracts from Pepys’ Diary		562
Students’ Themes—
A Diary of Four Days	Facundo Esquivel	564
A Journal: Mock Heroic	Victoriano Yamzon	567

Autobiography and Memoirs

The Life of David Hume, Esq.	Written by himself	575
Student autobiography	Domingo Guanio	585
What I Remember of the Coming of the Americans	Leopoldo Faustino	588

Biographies

Queen Christina	Hawthorne	595
Students’ Themes—
Juan Luna’s Life	Dolores Asuncion	604
Life of Elizabeth Glade	Nellie Barrington	607
The Biography of a Traitor	Walfrido de Leon	609

Annals

The State of England, in Stephen’s Reign	Peterborough Chronicle	616
Students’ Themes—
Annals of Mangaldan	Translated by Bernabe Aquino	621
Annals of Pagsanjan	Dolores Zafra	622

Chronicles

Rivalry between Two Towns	Froissart	630
Students’ Themes—
A Short History of Ilagan	Fernando Maramag	636
Some Incidents of the Rebellion of 1898: A True Relation	Marcelino Montemayor	639