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the story of it as you would tell it to another baseball player who did not see the game; as you would tell it to your mother; as you would tell it if you were a reporter for a newspaper.

XIX. Select a story from Ivanhoe, or The Last of the Mohicans, or Poe's Tales, or Browning's Poems. Point out the action, the suspense, the climax, in each.

What proportion of

Description and Exposition does each contain? Place

two of them side by side and compare them carefully.

XX. Outline and write two different narratives suggested by

the picture on the opposite page.

XXI. Outline and write a composition on one of the following imaginary situations:

When I lived beneath the sea.

When I was a nightingale.

When I took an air trip.

When I was an auto.

When I lived in China.

XXII. Invent a story somewhat like Young Lochinvar (quoted below). Write it in the first person.

elements in it.

Modernize all the

LOCHINVAR

Sir Walter Scott

O young Lochinvar is come out of the West,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best:
And, save his good broadsword, he weapon had none,
He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone.
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone,
He swam the Eske River where ford there was none;

But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate,

The bride had consented, the gallant came late :
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,

Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

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So boldly he entered the Netherby hall,

'Mong bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all:
Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword
(For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word),
"O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar ?"

"I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied ;
Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide;
And now am I come, with this lost love of mine
To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.
There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far,
That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar."

The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up,
He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup.
She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye.
He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,
"Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.

So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace;

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While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume;
And the bride-maidens whispered, ""Twere better by far
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar."

One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,

When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung,

So light to the saddle before her he sprung.

"She is won! we are gone! over bank, bush, and scar;

They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar.

There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran;

There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee,
But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,

Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ?

XXIII. Imagine yourself a medieval knight. Outline and write the story of one of your adventures. Then modernize

the story and make the same adventure take place in

this country now.

XXIV. Tell the story of Lochinvar

1. As Lochinvar told it in his old age.

2. As the bride told it after the elopement.

3. As the mother of the bride told it to her friend.

4. As one of those who followed Lochinvar and his bride

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1. Tell the story of Roland's arrival at Aix as one of the citizens would tell it.

2. Tell the story in the person of the horse Roland.

3. Tell the story as one of the vanquished riders would

tell it.

4. Write the story of an important race back to Ghent in which Roland figures.

HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX

Robert Browning

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he;

I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;

"Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;

"Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through;

Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,

And into the midnight we galloped abreast.

Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace

Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place;
I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight,
Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right,

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