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SETTING. Note the setting of this and "The Water-Hole," "The Knight's Move," "The Weaver Who Clad the Summer," "A Certain Rich Man. " In which of them is the outer setting a place for the rehearsal of the story which follows? In which is the setting that of the immediate story-action? What is the general value of a table scene to the writer who wishes to present his story in the "rehearsed" manner? How does a camp-fire compare with it? (Read, for example, Kipling's "The Courting of Dinah Shadd. ")
INTRODUCTION, WITH EMPHASIS ON CHARACTERS. Why is so long an introductory paragraph given to Burnaby?