Many stories about famous people are not based on facts. They are like some of the stories which people tell about their friends, which are passed from a friend to a friend’s friend. A story which is passed from (11) in this way may be better in the end than it was in the beginning, but probably it will (12) as a very different story. Each story-teller adds something or (13) or changes something, so by the time the story is written in a book it is a long way from any (14) in fact.
A man who tells a story does not always try to be (15) . He may not believe that facts are necessary in a story. He may want to make people laugh or make them cry; he may even want to make them think.