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A STUDY OF THE SYNOPSIS 59 : This runs but sixty-seven words, yet the full story is told and many editors would buy a story on that synopsis even if they did not know the author who wrote it. But suppose that this had been written by a beginner who la- bored under the belief that everything must be put down. He might start it off this way: Mary Monson is a country girl. One day Paul Langford passes her and is attracted by her beauty. The schoolmaster passes and speaks to her, but she has eyes only for Paul. The next day they meet again and this time Paul asks her to take a walk with him. She does so. They walk through the woods until Mary discovers that it is time for her to go home. Paul wants her to kiss him good bye. She says no, but Paul runs after her and brings her back and kisses her. Next day they meet again and this time she does not mind being kissed. They go for another walk and pass Jack the schoolmaster, who also loves Mary. He is very angry when he sees them together, but he does not say anything. Paul offers Mary a book to read. Mary does not know how to read and she is very much ashamed when she has to tell him so. She starts to go home and Gertrude, a beautiful young lady, who is a friend of Paul's comes along and she and Paul go for a walk. Mary is jealous and follows them. Paul gives Gertrude the book that Mary could not read and tells her how Mary could not read it. Gertrude reads the book. Mary runs away and meets the schoolmaster, Jack, and asks him to teach her how to read like Gertrude can. Jack says he will so he takes her to his home where he gives her a slate and a book and she begins to study. The next day Mary is late meeting Paul and he leaves her a note say- ing that he is going away and will see her next year. Mary can- not read the note, of course, so she takes it to the schoolmaster, who reads it for her. She studies very hard and learns how to read and write. She also discovers that she has no shoes and stockings so she learns how to do embroidery so as to get the money for shoes and stockings, which she does. Then she finds that she loves Jack instead of Paul so she tells him so and he hugs and kisses her. This may sound amusing, but it is precisely the sort of synopsis that comes into the studio day after day. All of this detail does not interest the Editor. The point of the story is that big hearted Jack, for the sake of the woman he loves, sets aside his own Jonging and tries to fit her to be the wife of another. That is about all there is to the story, in its last analysis. There is plenty of action, but the essential plot is contained in that single sentence, "He thinks that,he as educating her to make her fit to