Funny / The Storyteller

• Some of the interactions between the Storyteller and the Dog could become these. From "The Soldier and Death", we get this exchange.
  Dog (sniffing): What's in that bag? I can smell biscuits!
  Storyteller: Imagination.
  Dog: Let me see!
  Storyteller: Certainly not! (He grabs the bag, while the Dog grabs it with his teeth and yanks on it.) There are many important things in this bag! And besides, I need those biscuits for my story!
  Dog (letting go of the bag: Well, tell your story! Then we can eat them! Is it an old story?
  Storyteller: Ancient. Antique.
  Dog: Oh. Stale biscuits.
  • At the end of the story;
  Dog: Do you know what this is?
  Storyteller: Yes, it's a sack.
  Dog: Well, if it's a sack, then get in it! (Nothing happens.) Just checking.
  (The sack is tossed into the foreground. It rustles, and a devil pops out and scurries off. Only the dog notices.)
• In the beginning of "A Story Short" the Storyteller recounts how he couldn't remember how a story ended, so he gave his supper to a beggar as a form of punishment. He then mentions that a wise man will plant a potato instead of eating it, to which the dog replies, "You didn't plant anything. You gave away our supper!"

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