Two former students discuss ghost stories they heard while attending private school as boys. One man remembers a mysterious footprint found on the stairs that was never explained. They also discuss common tropes in school ghost stories, such as a room where people mysteriously die. One man then shares two unexplained personal experiences from his time in school involving their new teacher, Mr. Sampson, and a student named McLeod.
This document summarizes a story told by one of the men in the smoking room about a strange experience he had with a new teacher, Mr. Sampson, at his private school over 30 years ago. The storyteller describes how one of his classmates, McLeod, wrote a strange Latin phrase during a lesson that seemed to disturb Mr. Sampson. Later, McLeod fell ill. On another occasion, the storyteller found an extra paper on Mr. Sampson's desk in red ink written by an unknown person, furthering the mystery around the new teacher.
Greatest Hit & Misses-By My Side-Chapter 4: Part 1MimiBSims
The family prepares for Thanksgiving. Lyric gets a makeover and new outfit. Athenaeum loses her dream job but remains determined. Rudolph moves out to make room for the growing family. Polar and Rose hit it off during Lyric's matchmaking attempts. Athenaeum and Polar tease each other, though Polar remains the nicer sibling. Lyric and Rudy's affection embarrasses the kids.
The narrator, Faith, recounts moving from New York to the small town of Horsetail, Utah in 1872 after her father decided to relocate the family. She struggles to adjust to life in the remote town. She begins teaching a young boy named Zach to read after discovering the town has no school. Zach's older brother Jack disapproves of Zach learning to read at first. Faith continues teaching both boys, gaining Jack's approval when he realizes the importance of being able to read to protect the valley where wild horses graze that was special to their deceased mother. Faith receives an offer to continue her education back East but ultimately returns to Utah after missing Zach, Jack, and the quiet life in Horsetail
I.M Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 3 part 1Lady Lark
Eva, the teenage heir to the family, is struggling with feeling unloved by her parents who only seem to value her for the aspiration points she provides. Her father encourages her mother to show Eva love, but her mother believes Eva needs to learn independence. Eva throws herself into her schoolwork and dating to try to gain her parents' approval, but continues feeling lonely and misunderstood. Her wish for love and acceptance goes unfulfilled by her parents.
The best book you can read about vampires. You can get the book online, so I invite you to read dracula, and improve your pronunciation and also your vocabulary.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discuss a case involving a woman named Mary Sutherland. She came to Holmes for help regarding her fiancé Hosmer Angel, who mysteriously disappeared after they got engaged. Holmes questions Mary about her background and relationship with Hosmer to get details of the case. Mary explains she met Hosmer at a ball and they began exchanging letters after her father forbid them from seeing each other. They planned to marry but Hosmer never showed up at the wedding. Holmes continues questioning Mary to uncover more clues about Hosmer's identity and reason for disappearing.
The document is a short story summarizing how the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Alexander, Philomena, Henrietta, and Matthew - came together to establish the famous school. They realized the need for a school to properly educate young witches and wizards in magic. While they agreed on the idea, they struggled to agree on admissions criteria until Philomena proposed creating houses for each founder to select their preferred type of student. They settled on this idea and finally agreed on a name for the school - Hogwarts.
Carlos is declared the heir of Generation 4 after a competition between the siblings. He proposes to his friend Kelly Kim, who accepts. Carlos discusses his plans for Generation 4 with his Aunt Brianna, which involves having multiple romantic partners to build family friend count, while his siblings move out after completing their aspirations. He plans to have 4 children total. Brianna cautions him that taking on the entire family friend count himself will be a big responsibility.
This document summarizes a story told by one of the men in the smoking room about a strange experience he had with a new teacher, Mr. Sampson, at his private school over 30 years ago. The storyteller describes how one of his classmates, McLeod, wrote a strange Latin phrase during a lesson that seemed to disturb Mr. Sampson. Later, McLeod fell ill. On another occasion, the storyteller found an extra paper on Mr. Sampson's desk in red ink written by an unknown person, furthering the mystery around the new teacher.
Greatest Hit & Misses-By My Side-Chapter 4: Part 1MimiBSims
The family prepares for Thanksgiving. Lyric gets a makeover and new outfit. Athenaeum loses her dream job but remains determined. Rudolph moves out to make room for the growing family. Polar and Rose hit it off during Lyric's matchmaking attempts. Athenaeum and Polar tease each other, though Polar remains the nicer sibling. Lyric and Rudy's affection embarrasses the kids.
The narrator, Faith, recounts moving from New York to the small town of Horsetail, Utah in 1872 after her father decided to relocate the family. She struggles to adjust to life in the remote town. She begins teaching a young boy named Zach to read after discovering the town has no school. Zach's older brother Jack disapproves of Zach learning to read at first. Faith continues teaching both boys, gaining Jack's approval when he realizes the importance of being able to read to protect the valley where wild horses graze that was special to their deceased mother. Faith receives an offer to continue her education back East but ultimately returns to Utah after missing Zach, Jack, and the quiet life in Horsetail
I.M Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 3 part 1Lady Lark
Eva, the teenage heir to the family, is struggling with feeling unloved by her parents who only seem to value her for the aspiration points she provides. Her father encourages her mother to show Eva love, but her mother believes Eva needs to learn independence. Eva throws herself into her schoolwork and dating to try to gain her parents' approval, but continues feeling lonely and misunderstood. Her wish for love and acceptance goes unfulfilled by her parents.
The best book you can read about vampires. You can get the book online, so I invite you to read dracula, and improve your pronunciation and also your vocabulary.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discuss a case involving a woman named Mary Sutherland. She came to Holmes for help regarding her fiancé Hosmer Angel, who mysteriously disappeared after they got engaged. Holmes questions Mary about her background and relationship with Hosmer to get details of the case. Mary explains she met Hosmer at a ball and they began exchanging letters after her father forbid them from seeing each other. They planned to marry but Hosmer never showed up at the wedding. Holmes continues questioning Mary to uncover more clues about Hosmer's identity and reason for disappearing.
The document is a short story summarizing how the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Alexander, Philomena, Henrietta, and Matthew - came together to establish the famous school. They realized the need for a school to properly educate young witches and wizards in magic. While they agreed on the idea, they struggled to agree on admissions criteria until Philomena proposed creating houses for each founder to select their preferred type of student. They settled on this idea and finally agreed on a name for the school - Hogwarts.
Carlos is declared the heir of Generation 4 after a competition between the siblings. He proposes to his friend Kelly Kim, who accepts. Carlos discusses his plans for Generation 4 with his Aunt Brianna, which involves having multiple romantic partners to build family friend count, while his siblings move out after completing their aspirations. He plans to have 4 children total. Brianna cautions him that taking on the entire family friend count himself will be a big responsibility.
Minuura Sylum begins her job as a live-in therapist caring for 7 mental patients in a home with limited resources. She is advised to keep a diary for her sanity. The patients include Charles, Lenor, Varyo, Kris, Mr. Chester, Nargil and Olaf, each with their own attributes and goals. Minuura struggles to get close to the patients and maintain order in the home while also pursuing her own goal of going on dates. Over time, the patients begin opening up to Minuura and supporting each other, making her wonder if she will miss them when her job ends.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 6 Part 1Lady Lark
- The document appears to be notes from a multi-generational Sims family, known as the Boreds. Key events include Willow becoming a werewolf heir, Eva finishing a bestselling novel, and the twins Beatrix and Vash growing into teens.
- Strange men and women keep showing up at the house to flirt with family members, much to their annoyance. Ghosts also frequently haunt and scare the family.
- The twins express their aspirations - Beatrix wants to party and have babies, while Vash gets a scholarship and becomes a neutral witch.
This document is an introduction to a collection of letters purportedly written by a cat named Pussy to her young owner Helen. It provides background on Pussy, describing her as a clever gray tiger-striped cat who liked to play hide and seek. It says Helen received the letters from her mother while away on a trip and believed they were truly written by Pussy herself. The introduction characterizes Pussy's personality and habits, and recounts how she eventually grew old and fat before drowning in a mill pond, to Helen's great sadness.
1) A young man falls in love with a girl who works as a bath attendant in his home and wears a wooden bowl on her head to hide her face.
2) At a bride contest held by his mother to shame the girl, the bowl falls off to reveal her great beauty and inside the bowl are treasures.
3) She proves herself further by excelling in music and poetry, impressing all in attendance. It is later revealed that she is the daughter of a priest who had left his family. She and her father are reunited, and she lives happily with her husband.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 7 Part 2Lady Lark
Penelope continues her quest to complete her lifetime want of 50 first dates. She goes on dates with teens from the well and uses the dates to get gifts and contacts. Meanwhile, Charlene pursues a relationship with Guld Alioto, who she met in the well. Guld proves his devotion by stealing back Charlene's gnome that was taken by another man. Guld asks to be Charlene's pet for eternity, which she accepts. Olivia also gets engaged to Chester Gieke, who she met in the well. The document expresses frustration that the well drops are not providing suitable partners for the heirlooms.
Charles Dickens was a famous 19th century author known for his serial novels. He would publish chapters individually in newspapers to keep readers engaged and coming back for more. This "cliffhanger" technique involved ending chapters with a suspenseful moment to make readers want to know what happens next. The presentation argues this is an effective marketing strategy for bloggers, suggesting they write posts that introduce an idea but leave some suspense at the end to encourage readers to return. It provides an example of using this technique to discuss getting dumped by a boyfriend. The presentation concludes by offering copywriting services to help marketers tell compelling stories using techniques from great writers like Dickens.
The document is an excerpt from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes receiving an unusual late night visitor seeking his assistance. The visitor is described as a tall, richly dressed man wearing a mask. Through deductions about the man's physical appearance and clues in a note he received, Holmes determines the visitor is actually the King of Bohemia. The king reveals he seeks Holmes' help in preventing a scandal that could compromise his royal position.
Larch calls a family meeting to name an heir to continue the Vetinari Legacy. His twin children Finn and Zee are nearing college age. Finn correctly guesses that one of them will be named heir and return home to have children, continuing the Legacy, while the other will be free to live their own life as a "spare." Larch confirms Finn's guess is right and it is time to decide which twin will be the heir.
This document summarizes the text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It provides background on the eBook and notes it is part of the Project Gutenberg collection. It then presents the full text of "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 12 sections.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 4 Part 2Lady Lark
The document summarizes events in a Sims family, including birthdays for triplets who enjoy playing a game, a visit from a creepy former headmaster, the death of the family matriarch Fantasy, and budding romance between Rusty and a new friend he wished to meet. Key events are Fantasy's funeral which most people missed, Eva feeling guilty for missing it, and Rusty quickly hitting it off with his new friend.
This document is an excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discussing a mysterious note Holmes received requesting a meeting that evening. Through careful examination, Holmes deduces that the note was written by a German man, on paper made in Bohemia. He infers the visitor will arrive shortly to seek Holmes' services and reveal more information.
The Worthington Legacy - G1C1 - The College Yearshannarehnstrom
Frances J. Worthington III is a college student who has been chosen to found a legacy spanning 10 generations. He will no longer be able to rely on his family's wealth. Frances struggles to adjust to his new financial responsibilities and bans romantic relationships with playable characters. He makes friends and explores various majors and extracurricular activities. By his junior year, Frances is dating Camryn, whom he met in class and later reconnected with at a coffee shop.
This document is the copyright notice and introduction for Lewis Carroll's classic book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It warns that the book is copyrighted, but allows for limited personal copying and use. It provides publishing information for Boson Books, including their address and contact details. The introduction is followed by the beginning of Chapter 1, where Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and begins her journey into Wonderland.
This document appears to be a series of storyboards for a digital graphic narrative adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella. It includes panels summarizing key parts of the classic story, such as Cinderella's mother passing away, her stepfamily treating her poorly and making her do chores, Cinderella wishing to go to the king's ball but being refused by her stepmother, and Cinderella being helped by her fairy godmother to make it to the ball where she meets the prince. The storyboards provide a visual breakdown of the narrative to be adapted into a graphic format.
Thomas receives an unexpected package from his brother Pete while staying alone in a cabin to work on his novel. The heavy box contains only packaging and no instructions, leaving Thomas puzzled about its contents. After struggling to make progress on his writing, Thomas' curiosity grows about what mystery item Pete has sent. He finally opens the inner box to discover a lifelike humanoid robot inside, leaving him surprised but also with new questions about what abilities and purpose the robot serves.
The document contains short quotes and descriptions related to wit, humor, and clever wordplay. It includes sayings by Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, and a vocabulary website about witty language. Images described include Bruegel's painting of a drunken man interrupting a peasant dance, students responding to a teacher in Raphael's School of Athens, and scenes from paintings by Vibert and Magritte involving deception or double meanings.
Persephone visits her biological mother Athena for the first time after discovering who she is through her new divine powers. Athena is surprised by the visit as she did not think Persephone's father would tell her about Athena. They have an awkward conversation where Athena explains that Persephone's grandmother stripped Athena of her divine powers after Persephone was born, making Persephone the first being with one mortal parent to still have powers.
This document is an introduction to the short story collection "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It provides background on Sherlock Holmes and his relationship with Dr. Watson. It then describes an encounter where Dr. Watson visits Holmes at his apartment in Baker Street and witnesses Holmes working on a new case, having received an unusual note requesting his help that evening.
This document is an introduction to "The Magic Story", an unknown text from the 17th-18th century that was discovered bound in a homemade scrapbook. The introduction provides background on how the text was discovered and transformed the life of the starving artist who found it. It then shares an excerpt from the beginning of "The Magic Story" itself, which is presented as a first-person account and life story. The story tells of successes, failures, hard times, and an awakening experience that helped transform the author's mindset and life.
The second thoughts of an idle fellow jerome k jeromestaefenia sun
This document summarizes a chapter from Jerome Klapka Jerome's 1898 collection of essays titled "Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". The chapter discusses a woman's indecisiveness while shopping for fabric and how men also struggle with decisions related to their appearance. It then reflects on how fashions have changed over time and how dressing in costumes from the past could be enjoyable. The chapter pokes fun at the author's own past attempts to adopt different personas based on literary characters.
This document is Stephen King's curriculum vitae, describing fragments of memories from his early childhood. He recalls imagining himself as a circus strongman at age 2-3 and getting stung by a wasp while carrying a cinderblock. At age 4 in Wisconsin, he had many babysitters, including a large teenager named Eula/Beulah who would tickle and hit him. Once she farted on his face as a joke. King was later locked in a closet by Eula/Beulah after eating 7 eggs and getting sick. His mother fired Eula/Beulah after finding King asleep in the closet with vomit on her shoes.
Minuura Sylum begins her job as a live-in therapist caring for 7 mental patients in a home with limited resources. She is advised to keep a diary for her sanity. The patients include Charles, Lenor, Varyo, Kris, Mr. Chester, Nargil and Olaf, each with their own attributes and goals. Minuura struggles to get close to the patients and maintain order in the home while also pursuing her own goal of going on dates. Over time, the patients begin opening up to Minuura and supporting each other, making her wonder if she will miss them when her job ends.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 6 Part 1Lady Lark
- The document appears to be notes from a multi-generational Sims family, known as the Boreds. Key events include Willow becoming a werewolf heir, Eva finishing a bestselling novel, and the twins Beatrix and Vash growing into teens.
- Strange men and women keep showing up at the house to flirt with family members, much to their annoyance. Ghosts also frequently haunt and scare the family.
- The twins express their aspirations - Beatrix wants to party and have babies, while Vash gets a scholarship and becomes a neutral witch.
This document is an introduction to a collection of letters purportedly written by a cat named Pussy to her young owner Helen. It provides background on Pussy, describing her as a clever gray tiger-striped cat who liked to play hide and seek. It says Helen received the letters from her mother while away on a trip and believed they were truly written by Pussy herself. The introduction characterizes Pussy's personality and habits, and recounts how she eventually grew old and fat before drowning in a mill pond, to Helen's great sadness.
1) A young man falls in love with a girl who works as a bath attendant in his home and wears a wooden bowl on her head to hide her face.
2) At a bride contest held by his mother to shame the girl, the bowl falls off to reveal her great beauty and inside the bowl are treasures.
3) She proves herself further by excelling in music and poetry, impressing all in attendance. It is later revealed that she is the daughter of a priest who had left his family. She and her father are reunited, and she lives happily with her husband.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 7 Part 2Lady Lark
Penelope continues her quest to complete her lifetime want of 50 first dates. She goes on dates with teens from the well and uses the dates to get gifts and contacts. Meanwhile, Charlene pursues a relationship with Guld Alioto, who she met in the well. Guld proves his devotion by stealing back Charlene's gnome that was taken by another man. Guld asks to be Charlene's pet for eternity, which she accepts. Olivia also gets engaged to Chester Gieke, who she met in the well. The document expresses frustration that the well drops are not providing suitable partners for the heirlooms.
Charles Dickens was a famous 19th century author known for his serial novels. He would publish chapters individually in newspapers to keep readers engaged and coming back for more. This "cliffhanger" technique involved ending chapters with a suspenseful moment to make readers want to know what happens next. The presentation argues this is an effective marketing strategy for bloggers, suggesting they write posts that introduce an idea but leave some suspense at the end to encourage readers to return. It provides an example of using this technique to discuss getting dumped by a boyfriend. The presentation concludes by offering copywriting services to help marketers tell compelling stories using techniques from great writers like Dickens.
The document is an excerpt from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes receiving an unusual late night visitor seeking his assistance. The visitor is described as a tall, richly dressed man wearing a mask. Through deductions about the man's physical appearance and clues in a note he received, Holmes determines the visitor is actually the King of Bohemia. The king reveals he seeks Holmes' help in preventing a scandal that could compromise his royal position.
Larch calls a family meeting to name an heir to continue the Vetinari Legacy. His twin children Finn and Zee are nearing college age. Finn correctly guesses that one of them will be named heir and return home to have children, continuing the Legacy, while the other will be free to live their own life as a "spare." Larch confirms Finn's guess is right and it is time to decide which twin will be the heir.
This document summarizes the text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It provides background on the eBook and notes it is part of the Project Gutenberg collection. It then presents the full text of "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 12 sections.
I.M. Bored: A Legacy in 10 Generations - Gen 4 Part 2Lady Lark
The document summarizes events in a Sims family, including birthdays for triplets who enjoy playing a game, a visit from a creepy former headmaster, the death of the family matriarch Fantasy, and budding romance between Rusty and a new friend he wished to meet. Key events are Fantasy's funeral which most people missed, Eva feeling guilty for missing it, and Rusty quickly hitting it off with his new friend.
This document is an excerpt from Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "A Scandal in Bohemia". It introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discussing a mysterious note Holmes received requesting a meeting that evening. Through careful examination, Holmes deduces that the note was written by a German man, on paper made in Bohemia. He infers the visitor will arrive shortly to seek Holmes' services and reveal more information.
The Worthington Legacy - G1C1 - The College Yearshannarehnstrom
Frances J. Worthington III is a college student who has been chosen to found a legacy spanning 10 generations. He will no longer be able to rely on his family's wealth. Frances struggles to adjust to his new financial responsibilities and bans romantic relationships with playable characters. He makes friends and explores various majors and extracurricular activities. By his junior year, Frances is dating Camryn, whom he met in class and later reconnected with at a coffee shop.
This document is the copyright notice and introduction for Lewis Carroll's classic book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It warns that the book is copyrighted, but allows for limited personal copying and use. It provides publishing information for Boson Books, including their address and contact details. The introduction is followed by the beginning of Chapter 1, where Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and begins her journey into Wonderland.
This document appears to be a series of storyboards for a digital graphic narrative adaptation of the fairy tale Cinderella. It includes panels summarizing key parts of the classic story, such as Cinderella's mother passing away, her stepfamily treating her poorly and making her do chores, Cinderella wishing to go to the king's ball but being refused by her stepmother, and Cinderella being helped by her fairy godmother to make it to the ball where she meets the prince. The storyboards provide a visual breakdown of the narrative to be adapted into a graphic format.
Thomas receives an unexpected package from his brother Pete while staying alone in a cabin to work on his novel. The heavy box contains only packaging and no instructions, leaving Thomas puzzled about its contents. After struggling to make progress on his writing, Thomas' curiosity grows about what mystery item Pete has sent. He finally opens the inner box to discover a lifelike humanoid robot inside, leaving him surprised but also with new questions about what abilities and purpose the robot serves.
The document contains short quotes and descriptions related to wit, humor, and clever wordplay. It includes sayings by Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, and a vocabulary website about witty language. Images described include Bruegel's painting of a drunken man interrupting a peasant dance, students responding to a teacher in Raphael's School of Athens, and scenes from paintings by Vibert and Magritte involving deception or double meanings.
Persephone visits her biological mother Athena for the first time after discovering who she is through her new divine powers. Athena is surprised by the visit as she did not think Persephone's father would tell her about Athena. They have an awkward conversation where Athena explains that Persephone's grandmother stripped Athena of her divine powers after Persephone was born, making Persephone the first being with one mortal parent to still have powers.
This document is an introduction to the short story collection "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It provides background on Sherlock Holmes and his relationship with Dr. Watson. It then describes an encounter where Dr. Watson visits Holmes at his apartment in Baker Street and witnesses Holmes working on a new case, having received an unusual note requesting his help that evening.
This document is an introduction to "The Magic Story", an unknown text from the 17th-18th century that was discovered bound in a homemade scrapbook. The introduction provides background on how the text was discovered and transformed the life of the starving artist who found it. It then shares an excerpt from the beginning of "The Magic Story" itself, which is presented as a first-person account and life story. The story tells of successes, failures, hard times, and an awakening experience that helped transform the author's mindset and life.
The second thoughts of an idle fellow jerome k jeromestaefenia sun
This document summarizes a chapter from Jerome Klapka Jerome's 1898 collection of essays titled "Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". The chapter discusses a woman's indecisiveness while shopping for fabric and how men also struggle with decisions related to their appearance. It then reflects on how fashions have changed over time and how dressing in costumes from the past could be enjoyable. The chapter pokes fun at the author's own past attempts to adopt different personas based on literary characters.
This document is Stephen King's curriculum vitae, describing fragments of memories from his early childhood. He recalls imagining himself as a circus strongman at age 2-3 and getting stung by a wasp while carrying a cinderblock. At age 4 in Wisconsin, he had many babysitters, including a large teenager named Eula/Beulah who would tickle and hit him. Once she farted on his face as a joke. King was later locked in a closet by Eula/Beulah after eating 7 eggs and getting sick. His mother fired Eula/Beulah after finding King asleep in the closet with vomit on her shoes.
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914.[1] They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses.[2] The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.
Constantino T. Quiboloy - Selected Writingsbobitstrikelan
This document is a collection of short stories, poems, and essays by Constantino T. Quiboloy. It includes an introduction where the author notes that he has gathered some of his previously published works together in a typewritten collection for sentimental reasons, rather than commercial or literary ambitions. The collection contains 10 short stories, 6 essays, and 8 poems spanning different genres and periods in the author's life. The introduction provides brief context and notes about each piece.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesGeorge Grayson
1) Sherlock Holmes receives a mysterious pink note requesting a meeting that evening with a masked visitor, who desires consultation on a matter of great importance due to Holmes' success helping European royalty.
2) Through analyzing the paper and handwriting, Holmes deduces the visitor is German. The paper is made in Bohemia.
3) As Holmes is explaining his deductions, a horse-drawn carriage arrives at the door, suggesting the German visitor has arrived for the meeting.
LightShip Presentation for Michigan Reading Association 2013Paul Hankins
This document summarizes a presentation by Mr. Paul W. Hankins about using young adult (YA) titles in the classroom. It discusses how YA titles can serve as inspiration for students and draw people in with their sense of storytelling. It also notes that titles take their place in guiding and reminding students, just as lightships provide guidance from their steady position. Several quotes from YA titles are provided as examples of how they can speak to students. The document concludes by providing Mr. Hankins' contact information for anyone interested in following up or sharing additional title suggestions.
This summary provides the key details from the long document in 3 sentences:
G. is a 15-year-old black student who is attending a previously all-white high school in the American South, facing daily insults and isolation, though no physical violence yet. His mother Mrs. R. hopes this new school will provide G. a better education than his previous nearly empty segregated high school, but she and G. both face uncertainty about his future at the integrated school and the challenges he faces. The document explores G.'s experience and the perspectives of his mother, principal, and writer in grappling with the complex issues of desegregation and its impacts on students and communities in the American South.
This summary provides the key details from the long document in 3 sentences:
G. is a 15-year-old black student who is attending a previously all-white high school in the American South, facing daily insults and isolation, though no physical violence so far. His mother Mrs. R. chose to have him reassigned to improve his education, despite opposition from others in the black community. The document explores G.'s experience integrating the school through conversations with G., his mother, the principal, and others in the community.
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J a m e s B a l d w i n
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was born the son of a clergyman in Harlem, where
he attended Public School 24, Frederick Douglass Junior High School, and
DeWitt Clinton High School. While still a high school student he preached at the
Fireside Pentecostal Assembly, but when he was seventeen he renounced the
ministry. Two years later, living in Greenwich Village, he met who encouraged
him to be a writer and helped him win a Eugene Saxton Fellowship. Soon after-
ward Baldwin moved to France, as had, to escape the stifling racial oppression
he found in the United States. Although France was his more or less permanent
residence until his death from cancer nearly forty years later, Baldwin regarded
himself as a “commuter” rather than an expatriate:
Only white Americans can consider themselves to be expatriates. Once I
found myself on the other side of the ocean, I could see where I came from
very clearly, and I could see that I carried myself, which is my home, with me.
You can never escape that. I am the grandson of a slave, and I am a writer. I
must deal with both.
Baldwin began his career by publishing novels and short stories. In 1953 Go
Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, was highly acclaimed. It was based on his
childhood in Harlem and his fear of his tyrannical father. Baldwin’s frank depic-
tion of homosexuality in the novels Giovanni’s Room (1956) and Another Country
(1962) drew criticism, but during the civil rights movement a few years later, he
established himself as a brilliant essayist. In his lifetime Baldwin published sev-
eral collections of essays, three more novels, and a book of five short stories,
Going to Meet the Man (1965).
“Sonny’s Blues,” from that collection, is one of Baldwin’s strongest psycholog-
ical dramatizations of the frustrations of African American life in our time. Like
Wright’s autobiographical books, Baldwin’s work is an inspiration to young writers
struggling to express their experience of racism. The African writer Chinua Achebe
said that “as long as injustice exists . . . the words of James Baldwin will be there to
bear witness and to inspire and elevate the struggle for human freedom.”
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and I couldn’t believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at
the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the
swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people,
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"The Lives of the Dead" by Tim O'Brien
But this too is true: stories can save us. I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender, too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man I killed, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and several others whose bodies I once lifted and dumped into a truck. They're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
Start here: a body without a name. On an afternoon in 1969 the platoon took sniper fire from a filthy little village along the South China Sea. It lasted only a minute or two, and nobody was hurt, but even so Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got on the radio and ordered up an air strike. For the next half hour we watched the place burn. It was a cool bright morning, like early autumn, and the jets were glossy black against the sky. When it ended, we formed into a loose line and swept east through the village. It was all wreckage. I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The place was deserted - no people, no animals - and the only confirmed kill was an old man who lay face-up near a pigpen at the center of the village. His right arm was gone. At his face there were already many flies and gnats.
Dave Jensen went over and shook the old man's hand. "How-dee-doo," he said.
One by one the others did it too. They didn't disturb the body, they just grabbed the old man's hand and offered a few words and moved away.
Rat Kiley bent over the corpse. "Gimme five," he said. "A real honor."
"Pleased as punch," said Henry Dobbins.
I was brand-new to the war. It was my fourth day; I hadn't yet developed a sense of humor. Right away, as if I'd swallowed something, I felt a moist sickness rise up in my throat. I sat down beside the pigpen, closed my eyes, put my head between my knees.
After a moment Dave Jensen touched my shoulder.
"Be polite now," he said. "Go introduce yourself. Nothing to be afraid about, just a nice old man. Show a little respect for your elders."
"No way."
"Maybe it's too real for you?"
"That's right," I said. "Way too real."
Jensen kept after me, but I didn't go near the body. I didn't even look at it except by accident. For the rest of the day there was still that sickness inside me, but it wasn't the old man's corpse so much, it was the awesome act of greeting the dead. At one point, I remember, they sat the body up against a fence. They crossed his legs and talked to him. "The guest of honor," Mitchell Sanders said, and he placed a can of orange slices in the old man's lap. "Vitamin C," he said gently. "A guy's health, that's the most important thing."
They proposed toasts. They lifted their canteens and drank to the old man's family and ancestors, his many grandchildren, his newfound life after death. It was more than mockery. There was a formality to it, like a fu.
The document is a transcript of a talk given by an author to librarians about what writers want from libraries. Some key points:
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This document is the first chapter of "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It introduces the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes has a visitor, Count Von Kramm, who is actually an agent working for an unnamed royal figure. The Count asks Holmes and Watson to keep the matter he wishes to discuss absolutely secret for two years, saying it is a matter that could influence European history. Holmes and Watson agree to the secrecy condition.
Charles Dickens published the short story "The Haunted House" in 1859. The narrator encounters a strange man on his train ride who claims to have communicated with spirits through the night. The narrator is skeptical of these claims. Upon arriving at his destination, he views a deserted house that locals believe to be haunted. The landlord and others share stories they've heard of sightings at the house, including a hooded woman with an owl. However, the narrator remains skeptical of supernatural explanations and believes the house has gained a reputation it doesn't deserve.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1
CHAPTER I.
T
o Sherlock Holmes she is always the
woman. I have seldom heard him men-
tion her under any other name. In his
eyes she eclipses and predominates the
whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emo-
tion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and
that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold,
precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I
take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing
machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he
would have placed himself in a false position. He
never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe
and a sneer. They were admirable things for the ob-
server—excellent for drawing the veil from men’s
motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner
to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and
finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a dis-
tracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all
his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or
a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would
not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in
a nature such as his. And yet there was but one
woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene
Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage
had drifted us away from each other. My own
complete happiness, and the home-centred inter-
ests which rise up around the man who first finds
himself master of his own establishment, were suf-
ficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes,
who loathed every form of society with his whole
Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker
Street, buried among his old books, and alternating
from week to week between cocaine and ambition,
the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of
his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply
attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his
immense faculties and extraordinary powers of ob-
servation in following out those clues, and clearing
up those mysteries which had been abandoned as
hopeless by the official police. From time to time.
Holmes and Watson hide in Mrs. Warren's box room to observe her mysterious lodger. She leaves his lunch tray outside his locked door as usual. They wait to catch a glimpse of the man, whose unusual seclusion and secretive behavior has alarmed the landlady. The story sets up a mystery around the identity and motives of the unknown lodger.
CONTENTS
PARTI
CHAP.
I. A SLICE OF INFINITY 11. READY-MADE CLOTHES 111. THE HIDDEN GOLD IV. 'SUCH A LOVELY
BITE!' V. LANDLORD AND TENANT VI. THE CORNER CUPBOARD VII. WITH THE WOLVES IN
THE WILD Vm. DICK SUNSHINE IX. FORTY! X. A WOMAN'S REASON
PART II
I. THE HANDICAP II. GOG AND MAGOG HI. MY WARDROBE IV. PITY MY SIMPLICITY!' V.
TUNING FROM THE BASS VI. A FRUITLESS DEPUTATION VH. TRAMP! TRAMP! TRAMP! VIE.
THE FIRST MATE
PARTHI
CHAP.
I. WHEN THE COWS COME HOME II. MUSHROOMS ON THE MOOR m. ONIONS IV. ON GETTING
OVER THINGS V. NAMING THE BABY VI. THE MISTRESS OF THE MARGIN VH. LILY
Rhys and Ede were getting intimate for Christmas when they heard a noise outside. Rhys discovered an elderly homeless man had fallen from the roof after attempting to pet the electric reindeer. The man demanded his red suit back, which Ede had received as a gift from a fan, not realizing it was actually Santa's suit. Keith from Doctor Who arrived and explained he had given Santa's suit to Alexander Goth as a prank. Santa took his suit and left to confront Alexander, ending their Christmas adventure.
Stephen King recalls how writing helped him get through a sickly childhood year spent mostly bedridden. He read voraciously, from comic books to novels, and was inspired by his mother to start writing his own stories after she praised one he had copied from a comic. His first original story featured magical animals helping children and was well-received by his mother, who encouraged further writing. King earned his first money from writing by selling four additional stories about the characters to his mother's sisters.
Stephen King recalls how writing helped him get through a sickly childhood year spent mostly bedridden. He began by copying comic books word for word in his notebook. His mother was charmed by one of his copies and asked if he had made it up himself. When he admitted to copying it, she encouraged him to write his own, which he did - a four-page story about magic animals helping kids. His mother praised it, making King very happy. He went on to write four more stories about the characters, earning a quarter for each from his mother.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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James
1. A SCHOOL STORY
by M. R. James
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Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. "At our
school," said A., "we had a ghost's footmark on the staircase. "
" What was it like?"
"Oh, very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe, with a square toe, if I
remember right. The staircase was a stone one. I never heard any story about
the thing. That seems odd, when you come to think of it. Why didn't somebody
invent one, I wonder?"
"You never can tell with little boys. They have a mythology of their own.
There's a subject for you, by the way - "The Folklore of Private Schools."
"Yes; the crop is rather scanty, though. I imagine, if you were to
investigate the cycle of ghost stories, for instance, which the boys at
private schools tell each other, they would all turn out to be
highly-compressed versions of stories out of books."
"Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's, and so on, would be extensively drawn
upon."
"No doubt: they weren't born or thought of in my time. Let's see. I
wonder if I can remember the staple ones that I was told. First, there was
the house with a room in which a series of people insisted on passing a
night; and each of them in the morning was found kneeling in a corner, and
had just time to say, 'I've seen it,' and died."
"Wasn't that the house in Berkeley Square?"
"I dare say it was. Then there was the man who heard a noise in the
passage at night, opened his door, and saw someone crawling towards him on
all fours with his eye hanging out on his cheek. There was besides, let me
think - Yes! the room where a man was found dead in bed with a horseshoe
mark on his forehead, and the floor under the bed was covered with marks of
horseshoes also; I don't know why. Also there was the lady who, on locking
her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a thin voice among the
bed-curtains say, 'Now we're shut in for the night.' None of those had any
explanation or sequel. I wonder if they go on still, those stories."
"Oh, likely enough - with additions from the magazines, as I said. You
never heard, did you, of a real ghost at a private school? I thought not,
nobody has that ever I came across."
"From the way in which you said that, I gather that you have."
"I really don't know, but this is what was in my mind. It happened at my
private school thirty odd years ago, and I haven't any explanation of it.
"The school I mean was near London. It was established in a large and
fairly old house - a great white building with very fine grounds about it;
there were large cedars in the garden, as there are in so many of the older
gardens in the Thames valley, and ancient elms in the three or four fields
2. which we used for our games. I think probably it was quite an attractive
place, but boys seldom allow that their schools possess any tolerable
features.
"I came to the school in a September, soon after the year 1870; and among
the boys who arrived on the same day was one whom I took to: a Highland boy,
whom I will call McLeod. I needn't spend time in describing him: the main
thing is that I got to know him very well. He was not an exceptional boy in
any way - not particularly good at books or games - but he suited me.
"The school was a large one: there must have been from 120 to 130 boys
there as a rule, and so a considerable staff of masters was required, and
there were rather frequent changes among them.
"One term - perhaps it was my third or fourth - a new master made his
appearance. His name was Sampson. He was a tallish, stoutish, pale,
black-bearded man. I think we liked him: he had travelled a good deal, and
had stories which amused us on our school walks, so that there was some
competition among us to get within earshot of him. I remember too - dear me,
I have hardly thought of it since then - that he had a charm on his
watch-chain that attracted my attention one day, and he let me examine it.
It was, I now suppose, a gold Byzantine coin; there was an effigy of some
absurd emperor on one side; the other side had been worn practically smooth,
and he had had cut on it - rather barbarously - his own initials, G.W.S.,
and a date, 24 July, 1865. Yes, I can see it now: he told me he had picked
it up in Constantinople: it was about the size of a florin, perhaps rather
smaller.
"Well, the first odd thing that happened was this. Sampson was doing
Latin grammar with us. One of his favourite methods - perhaps it is rather a
good one - was to make us construct sentences out of our own heads to
illustrate the rules he was trying to make us learn. Of course that is a
thing which gives a silly boy a chance of being impertinent: there are lots
of school stories in which that happens - or any-how there might be. But
Sampson was too good a disciplinarian for us to think of trying that on with
him. Now, on this occasion he was telling us how to express remembering in
Latin: and he ordered us each to make a sentence bringing in the verb
memini, 'I remember.' Well, most of us made up some ordinary sentence such
as 'I remember my father,' or 'He remembers his book,' or something equally
uninteresting: and I dare say a good many put down memino librum meum, and
so forth: but the boy I mentioned - McLeod - was evidently thinking of
something more elaborate than that. The rest of us wanted to have our
sentences passed, and get on to something else, so some kicked him under the
desk, and I, who was next to him, poked him and whispered to him to look
sharp. But he didn't seem to attend. I looked at his paper and saw he had
put down nothing at all. So I jogged him again harder than before and
upbraided him sharply for keeping us all waiting. That did have some effect.
He started and seemed to wake up, and then very quickly he scribbled about a
couple of lines on his paper, and showed it up with the rest. As it was the
last, or nearly the last, to come in, and as Sampson had a good deal to say
to the boys who had written meminiscimus patri meo and the rest of it, it
turned out that the clock struck twelve before he had got to McLeod, and
McLeod had to wait afterwards to have his sentence corrected. There was
nothing much going on outside when I got out, so I waited for him to come.
He came very slowly when he did arrive, and I guessed there had been some
sort of trouble. 'Well,' I said, 'what did you get?' 'Oh, I don't know,'
said McLeod, 'nothing much: but I think Sampson's rather sick with me.'
3. 'Why, did you show him up some rot?' 'No fear,' he said. 'It was all right
as far as I could see: it was like this: Memento - that's right enough for
remember, and it takes a genitive, - memento putei inter quatuor taxos.'
'What silly rot!' I said. 'What made you shove that down? What does it
mean?' 'That's the funny part,' said McLeod. 'I'm not quite sure what it
does mean. All I know is, it just came into my head and I corked it down. I
know what I think it means, because just before I wrote it down I had a sort
of picture of it in my head: I believe it means "Remember the well among the
four" - what are those dark sort of trees that have red berries on them?'
'Mountain ashes, I s'pose you mean.' 'I never heard of them,' said McLeod;
'no, I'll tell you - yews.' 'Well, and what did Sampson say?' 'Why, he was
jolly odd about it. When he read it he got up and went to the mantel-piece
and stopped quite a long time without saying anything, with his back to me.
And then he said, without turning round, and rather quiet, "What do you
suppose that means?" I told him what I thought; only I couldn't remember the
name of the silly tree: and then he wanted to know why I put it down, and I
had to say something or other. And after that he left off talking about it,
and asked me how long I'd been here, and where my people lived, and things
like that: and then I came away: but he wasn't looking a bit well.'
"I don't remember any more that was said by either of us about this. Next
day McLeod took to his bed with a chill or something of the kind, and it was
a week or more before he was in school again. And as much as a month went by
without anything happening that was noticeable. Whether or not Mr. Sampson
was really startled, as McLeod had thought, he didn't show it. I am pretty
sure, of course, now, that there was something very curious in his past
history, but I'm not going to pretend that we boys were sharp enough to
guess any such thing.
"There was one other incident of the same kind as the last which I told
you. Several times since that day we had had to make up examples in school
to illustrate different rules, but there had never been any row except when
we did them wrong. At last there came a day when we were going through those
dismal things which people call Conditional Sentences, and we were told to
make a conditional sentence, expressing a future consequence. We did it,
right or wrong, and showed up our bits of paper, and Sampson began looking
through them. All at once he got up, made some odd sort of noise in his
throat, and rushed out by a door that was just by his desk. We sat there for
a minute or two, and then - I suppose it was incorrect - but we went up, I
and one or two others, to look at the papers on his desk. Of course I
thought someone must have put down some nonsense or other, and Sampson
had
gone off to report him. All the same, I noticed that he hadn't taken any of
the papers with him when he ran out. Well, the top paper on the desk was
written in red ink - which no one used - and it wasn't in anyone's hand who
was in the class. They all looked at it - McLeod and all - and took their
dying oaths that it wasn't theirs. Then I thought of counting the bits of
paper. And of this I made quite certain: that there were seventeen bits of
paper on the desk, and sixteen boys in the form. Well, I bagged the extra
paper, and kept it, and I believe I have it now. And now you will want to
know what was written on it. It was simple enough, and harmless enough, I
should have said.
"'Si tu non veneris ad me, ego veniam ad te,' which means, I suppose, 'If
you don't come to me, I'll come to you.'"
"Could you show me the paper?" interrupted the listener.
4. "Yes, I could: but there's another odd thing about it. That same
afternoon I took it out of my locker - I know for certain it was the same
bit, for I made a finger-mark on it and no single trace of writing of any
kind was there on it. I kept it, as I said, and since that time I have tried
various experiments to see whether sympathetic ink had been used, but
absolutely without result.
"So much for that. After about half an hour Sampson looked in again: said
he had felt very unwell, and told us we might go. He came rather gingerly to
his desk, and gave just one look at the uppermost paper: and I suppose he
thought he must have been dreaming: anyhow, he asked no questions.
"That day was a half-holiday, and next day Sampson was in school again,
much as usual. That night the third and last incident in my story happened.
"We - McLeod and I - slept in a dormitory at right angles to the main
building. Sampson slept in the main building on the first floor. There was a
very bright full moon. At an hour which I can't tell exactly, but some time
between one and two, I was woken up by somebody shaking me. It was McLeod,
and a nice state of mind he seemed to be in. 'Come,' he said, - 'come
there's a burglar getting in through Sampson's window.' As soon as I could
speak, I said, 'Well, why not call out and wake everybody up? 'No, no,' he
said, 'I'm not sure who it is: don't make a row: come and look.' Naturally I
came and looked, and naturally there was no one there. I was cross enough,
and should have called McLeod plenty of names: only - I couldn't tell why -
it seemed to me that there was something wrong - something that made me very
glad I wasn't alone to face it. We were still at the window looking out, and
as soon as I could, I asked him what he had heard or seen. 'I didn't hear
anything at all,' he said, 'but about five minutes before I woke you, I
found myself looking out of this window here, and there was a man sitting or
kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was
beckoning.' 'What sort of man?' McLeod wriggled. 'I don't know,' he said,
'but I can tell you one thing - he was beastly thin: and he looked as if he
was wet all over: and,' he said, looking round and whispering as if he
hardly liked to hear himself, 'I'm not at all sure that he was alive.'
"We went on talking in whispers some time longer, and eventually crept
back to bed. No one else in the room woke or stirred the whole time. I
believe we did sleep a bit afterwards, but we were very cheap next day.
"And next day Mr. Sampson was gone: not to be found: and I believe no
trace of him has ever come to light since. In thinking it over, one of the
oddest things about it all has seemed to me to be the fact that neither
McLeod nor I ever mentioned what we had seen to any third person whatever.
Of course no questions were asked on the subject, and if they had been, I am
inclined to believe that we could not have made any answer: we seemed unable
to speak about it.
"That is my story," said the narrator. "The only approach to a ghost
story connected with a school that I know, but still, I think, an approach
to such a thing."
* * * * *
The sequel to this may perhaps be reckoned highly conventional; but a
sequel there is, and so it must be produced. There had been more than one
5. listener to the story, and, in the latter part of that same year, or of the
next, one such listener was staying at a country house in Ireland.
One evening his host was turning over a drawer full of odds and ends in
the smoking-room. Suddenly he put his hand upon a little box. "Now," he
said, "you know about old things; tell me what that is." My friend opened
the little box, and found in it a thin gold chain with an object attached to
it. He glanced at the object and then took off his spectacles to examine it
more narrowly. "What's the history of this?" he asked. "Odd enough," was the
answer. "You know the yew thicket in the shrubbery: well, a year or two back
we were cleaning out the old well that used to be in the clearing here, and
what do you suppose we found?"
"Is it possible that you found a body?" said the visitor, with an odd
feeling of nervousness.
"We did that: but what's more, in every sense of the word, we found two."
"Good Heavens! Two? Was there anything to show how they got there? Was
this thing found with them?"
"It was. Amongst the rags of the clothes that were on one of the bodies.
A bad business, whatever the story of it may have been. One body had the
arms tight round the other. They must have been there thirty years or more -
long enough before we came to this place. You may judge we filled the well
up fast enough. Do you make anything of what's cut on that gold coin you
have there?"
"I think I can," said my friend, holding it to the light (but he read it
without much difficulty); "it seems to be G.W.S., 24 July, 1865."
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