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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development; Edited With Introduction and Notes
Every fable has its moral, even though this is not always tagged to the tail of it; and the ethi cal intent of the story-teller who sets down what the animals say to one another is as obvious in the record of the doings of Reynard the Fox as it is in the sayings of B'rer Rabbit preserved for us by Uncle Remus. A moral there is also - and the sturdiest and wisest of morals - in the Jungle Book of Mr. Kipling, wherein we learn how Mowgli grew to manhood among the wild creatures of the field and of the forest. But the beast-fable, delightful as it may be when it is dealt with artisti cally, by the writers who have genuine sympathy with the lowly and clear insight into the conditions of life, the beast-fable is only one of the many forms of the brief tale; and it has only a casual likeness to the true short-story.
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