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| 15 | 176 | They are, however, seldom View more quotes about sold">sold, for the red savages do not like to think that a story can have a price. |
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| 15 | 173 | Sometimes they are told on special days, story-telling days, and many people will come to listen. |
| 15 | 174 | Some men own little but their story, but owning a good story, in the opinion of the red savages, makes a man rich. |
| 15 | 175 | Such stories, like other forms of personal property, can be given away or sold. |
| 15 | 176 | They are, however, seldom sold, for the red savages do not like to think that a story can have a price. |
| 15 | 177 | They like to think of them as being too precious to sell. |
| 15 | 178 | Thus, like all things precious, or priceless, they are either to be kept or given away, kept as treasures, or awarded, freely, as by a man whose heart sings, as gifts. |
| 15 | 179 | Sometimes a man bequeaths his story to his heirs; some stories, for example, have been in families for generations; sometimes, on the other hand, he will give it to someone who loves it, and whom he thinks, in turn, will tell it well. |