has set his heart, encounters a series of obstacles, a new obstacle arising as often as the old one is overcome.

20. The following paragraph is taken from a local paper. Point out its defects as narrative. Then rewrite it at some length, fill

A funny scene on Exchange Place Saturday night was a man driving a team hitched to a big sleigh and dragging a horse and carriage backwards. Soon the horse fell down or was pulled over backwards, then some one stopped the team. Nobody seemed to know how the sleigh hitched onto the carriage wheel, but a broken tie strap showed that the horse had been hitched a short distance from where the man was discovered dragging him away.

21.- Write the story suggested by Morot's Bravo Toro

FIGURE 5.

(Figure 5). The scene

represented in the picture should form, as it were, a crosssection (or, to change the figure, a snap-shot) of some part of the narrative.

22.

Complete the following narrative:

Mr. Watson had spent a night with his party on the mountain, and at noon on the following day was engaged in exploring the southern lava stream which finds its way down the side of the volcano. With no thought of danger he wandered entirely away from his friends and the guides.

Coming to the broad lava stream, he sat down under the shelter of a promontory of rocks, and gazed upon the great slow river of fire flowing before him. It followed a straight course down the mountain, until, at some distance below, it entered a thicket of trees which seemed, as he watched it through the grass, to have remarkable powers of resisting combustion from the lava.

He continued this until almost nightfall, when he started to return to camp. As he returned, leaving the lava stream at his back, he saw another stream before him. He thought at first that he had been gazing so long at the molten river that it had caused him to see lava in whatever direction he looked, and he walked on, expecting to find hard ground still beneath his feet. But he soon perceived that he was between two lava streams, one of which cut him off from the camp.

What had happened was this: While Mr. Watson had been sitting beneath the rock, the stream of lava had widened. The rock that sheltered him had divided it, and it was now flowing down to his left as well as to his right.

Then it occurred to him that he could go down the stream, and doubtless get around the head of the new one, and so escape. But before he had gone far he discovered that the new stream united with the old a short distance farther down the mountain.

Mr. Watson was now, therefore, on an island of solid ground, with a river of fire all around him. He looked about in despair.

23. A part of Figure 6 has been purposely torn away. Supply, in imagination, the missing portion and write the suggested story. The picture is entitled "The Result of the Duel."

24. — Complete the following narrative, rewording it from the beginning and expanding it somewhat, in accordance with the following suggestions :

(1) What message did Currado send to the cook with the crane? What did the cook say when he received the message? when he examined the crane? (2) At what point did the friend come in? What did he say, and what did the cook reply? What would the cook's attitude naturally

be at first, and how would the friend endeavor to overcome his scruple? (3) Picture the host's surprise and embarrassment when he discovered the mutilation. What did the guests say to one another? In what words did Currado command the cook to be sent for? (4) Imagine the cook's

What did Currado

face and manner as he entered the room. say to him, and how did he say it? What did the cook reply? (5) Think of some of the incidents that occurred as the two men rode along together. What questions did Currado ask, and what did the cook reply? (6) For the continuation devise some way in which the cook could make good his rash assertion that cranes have only one leg.

Currado, a citizen of Florence, having one day taken a crane with his hawk, sent it to his cook to be dressed for supper. After it had been roasted, the cook yielded to the importunities of one of his friends and gave him a leg of the crane. His master was greatly incensed at seeing the bird served up in this mutilated form. The cook being sent for, excused himself by asserting that cranes have only one leg. On hearing this Currado was still further exasperated, and commanded him to produce a live crane with only one leg, or expect the severest punishment. Next morning the cook, accompanied by his master, set out in quest of this rara avis, trembling all the way with terror, and fancying everything he saw to be a crane with two legs. At length

25. Analyze the specimens of narrative below in accordance with the following outline:

1. Purpose or central idea.

2. Elements of the conflict.

3. Point of highest interest or climax. 4. Character of the conclusion.

5. Irreleɣant incidents or descriptions.

(a) Putney Bridge at half an hour before high tide; thirteen or fourteen steamers; five or six thousand boats, and fifteen or twenty thousand spectators. This is the morning of the great University race, about which every member of the two great Universities, and a very large section of the general public, have been fidgeting and talking for a month or so.

The bridge is black, the lawns are black, every balcony and window in the town is black; the steamers are black with a

swarming, eager multitude, come to see the picked youths of the upper class try their strength against one another. There are two friends of ours nearly concerned in the great event of the day. Charles is rowing there in the Oxford boat, and Marston is steering. This is a memorable day for both of them, and more especially for poor Charles.

Now the crowd surges to and fro, and there is a cheer. The men are getting into their boats. The police-boats are busy clearing the course. Now there is a cheer of admiration. dashes out, swings round, and takes her place at the bridge.

Cambridge

Another shout. Oxford sweeps majestically out and takes her place by Cambridge. Away go the police-galleys, away go all the London club-boats, at ten miles an hour down the course. Now the course is clear, and there is almost a silence.

Then a wild hubbub; the people begin to squeeze and crush against one another. The boats are off; the fight has begun; then the thirteen steamers come roaring on after them, and their wake is alive once more with boats.

Everywhere a roar and a rushing to and fro. Frantic crowds upon the towing-path, mad crowds on the steamers, which make them sway and rock fearfully. Ahead, Hammersmith Bridge, hanging like a black bar, covered with people as with a swarm of bees. As an eye-piece to the picture, two solitary flying-boats, and the flashing oars, working with the rapidity and regularity of a steam engine.

"Who's in front?" is asked by a thousand mouths; but who can tell? We shall see soon. Hammersmith Bridge is stretching across the water not a hundred yards in front of the boats. For one-half second a light shadow crosses the Oxford boat, and then it is out into sunlight beyond. In another second the same shadow crosses the Cambridge boat. Oxford is ahead.

The men with light-blue neckties say that, "By George, Oxford can't keep that terrible quick stroke going much longer;" and the men with dark-blue ties say, "Can't she, by Jove!" Well, we shall know all about it soon, for here is Barnes Bridge. Again the shadow goes over the Oxford boat, and then one, two, three, four seconds before the Cambridge men pass beneath it. Oxford is winning! There is a shout from the people at Barnes, though the Tooì don't know why. Cambridge has made a furious rush,