Thanks MMario. I'd forgotten about Thornton Burgess for many years. You set me lookig, and I found I've got two of his books on a shelf somewhere.

But I was expecting to see Reddy's dodgy uncle Harry Fox come into the story, and get sorted out.

Anyway this thread set me thinking aboput looking for storytelling sites. Storytelling is increasingly playing a big part in folk festivals, and having its own festivals as well, and is very much part of the folik community. world. So there have to be some good sites, but there's didn't seem to be much on the Mudcat links list.

So I looked around and found this one, which seems handy, and on the same wavelength as Mudcat generally, and I've stuck it in as a link. I won't try a blue clicky thing this late at night - they always seem to go wrong for me. So here is the URL of "Story Resources available on the Web" : http://www.enigmagraphics.com/stories/index.htm

If other people have good storytelling sites they know about, I think it would be good to link up. For one thing I imagine storytellers get the same kind of hassles about copyright as folk singers.