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Miss Minetta rose and looked at him with fire in her eyes. "Well!" she said aloud, "I'd like mother to see you now!"

The doctor had jumped out of his gig and let his little mare go galloping up the road. He had his arm about Miss Minetta's waist when he turned to face his familiar demon which may have accounted for the pluck in his face.

But Zenobia was a hundred yards down the road, and she was utterly incapable of getting any farther. She trumpeted once or twice, then she wavered like a reed in the wind; her legs weakened under her, and she sank on her side. Her red cap had slipped down, and she picked it up with her trunk, broke its band in a reckless swing that resembled the wave of jovial farewell, gave one titanic hiccup, and fell asleep by the roadside.

An hour later, Dr. Tibbitt was driving toward Pelion, with Miss Bunker by his side. His horse had been stopped at the tollgate. He was driving with one hand. Perhaps he needed the other to show how they could have a summerhouse in the garden that ran down to the river.

But it was evening when Zenobia awoke to find her keeper sitting on her head. He jabbed a cotton hook firmly and decisively into her ear, and led her homeward down the road lit by the golden sunset. That was the end of Zenobia's infidelity.

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Describe Sagawaug.

At what point does the story begin to interest you? Is the boy natural when he brings the message? How does Zenobia show her gratitude at first? Later? Do you think her keeper was kind? Why do you think so? Was the doctor kind? Do you like the way the story ends? What makes the reader have a certain affection for Zenobia?

SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDYING AND WRITING A SHORT STORY

(4) A story may begin in one of the following ways: with a description of the scene, i.e. the setting; with a description of the chief characters; with an incident; with a conversation between or about the chief characters; with a statement of the reason for the author's writing the story; with a statement of the central idea of the story. Which method is used here?

(B) Every story is told from the point of view of one of three people : an onlooker; the person to whom the story happens; some one who holds the place, so to speak, of Providence, i.e. who knows everything about the story and the characters. Which point of view is used here?

Begin a story entitled "My First Circus," with a short description of the appearance of the town on "circus day. Then give a brief conversation between yourself and some friend about going to the circus. Be sure to write only what you could see and know. Perhaps your chum was with you that day. If so, get him to write of your visit as he saw it, i.e. as an onlooker.

SUGGESTIONS FOR ORAL AND WRITTEN ENGLISH

THEME SUBJECTS

Tell a friend orally in a vigorous way without hesitation the story of Zenobia's Infidelity. Remember that success in the use of oral or written English depends on your being interested yourself. Keep the fixed determination to interest those who listen to you.

Read Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants and tell the story.

Tell the most interesting story you know of an elephant or of some other animal.

Give the autobiography of a cat or a dog for twenty-four hours.

The Gratitude of Animals.

My Favorite Animal.

A Ride on an Elephant.

The Most Faithful Animal.
What My Pet Taught Me.
Can Animals Reason?

SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READINGS

Smith's Love Letters (from Short Sixes). Henry Cuyler Bunner.
The Tenor (from Short Sixes). Henry Cuyler Bunner.

The Pitcher of Mignonette (Verse). Henry Cuyler Bunner.

A Passion in the Desert (from Scenes of Military Life). Honoré de Balzac.

Moti Guj
Toomai of the Elephants (from Jungle Book, I).

Mutineer (from Life's Handicap).

Rudard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling.

The Cat: The Doctor's Horse (from Understudies). M. E. Wilkins

Freeman.

The Call of the Wild. Jack London.

White Fang. Jack London.

Johnny Bear (in Lives of the Hunted). Ernest Thompson Seton.

Lobo, the King of Currumpaw (in Wild Animals I Have Known).

Ernest Thompson Seton.

The Trail of the Sand Hill Stag. Ernest Thompson Seton.

The Kindred of the Wild. Charles G. D. Roberts.
The Training of Wild Animals. Frank Bostock.
The Wilderness Hunter. Theodore Roosevelt.
Hunting the Elephant in Africa. C. H. Stigand.

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE 1

RUDYARD KIPLING

Rudyard Kipling (1865- ), one of the most brilliant writers of the nineteenth century, was born in India. He began writing stories and poems when quite young for the Military Gazette in India. His stories of life in India, his Jungle Books, and his poem the Recessional have won for him world-wide reputation. See also:

Halleck's New English Literature, pp. 568-576, 586.
Knowles's Kipling Primer.

Canby's The Short Story in English.

JUST to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo 2 always recited them in a sort of singsong) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves. There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will do for specimens of the simpler rulings.

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And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf

that shall break it must die.

1 From The Second Jungle Book. Used by special arrangement with Rudyard Kipling and the Century Company.

2 The brown bear who taught the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle.

As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk the Law runneth forward and back

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;

And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.

The Jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, when thy whiskers

are grown,

Remember the Wolf is a hunter go forth and get food of thine own.

Keep peace with the Lords of the Jungle - the Tiger, the Panther, the Bear;

And trouble not Hathi1 the Silent, and mock not the Boar in his lair.

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,

Lie down till the leaders have spoken

shall prevail.

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it may be fair words

When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar,

Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be diminished by war.

The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home,

Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.

1 The wild elephant.

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