WHAT YOU MISSED

An amazingly varied set of responses to the theme of “How Far Would You Go?” Maddie's answer was “From Burley to London – by means of a magic hat!” [I translate the story to Scotland, and do it all with an accent, since that's how I first came across it, in a book of stories for telling by Leila Berg – but I've heard it in Hampshire form – Graham Rogers christened my Sarum Story Club with it in 2013!]

Then Raphael, to be one of our new regular tellers, told The Stubborn Couple – neither wanting to be the first to speak – which he located in a nameless Middle Eastern country.

Mike closed the first half with Trial By Combat, his version of Heinrich von Kleist's Der Zweikampf, a complex tale of murder and alibis, guilt and innocence in the Middle Ages.

Maddie opened the second half with Rabbi Hillel's condensed version of Judaism: “Do not do to anyone else what you would not like done to yourself. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary.” So you can be converted while standing on one leg! Mike filled in for Raphael's comfort break with The Foolish Boy, which you can find here, under another title: http://oaks.nvg.org/baya.html#master-fool Then Raphael closed the evening with his version of The Travelling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen, which you can find here http://hca.gilead.org.il/travelng.html