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Sir Walter Raleigh's account of his voyage to Guiana. This will show you what the people of that day were wont to accept as true. Sir John Maundeville's travels may also be consulted for the same purpose.

(h) Rewrite Captain King's story of the charge of Lee and Hampton (page 235), putting the narrative in the mouth of a Confederate cavalryman.

(i) Tell briefly the story of Troy to a child of five, observing the method indicated in the following extract from one of Browning's poems:

My father was a scholar and knew Greek.

When I was five years old, I asked him once,

"What do you read about?"

"The siege of Troy."

"What is a siege, and what is Troy?

Whereat

He piled up chairs and tables for a town,
Set me a-top for Priam, called our cat
- Helen, enticed away from home (he said)
By wicked Paris, who couched somewhere close
Under the footstool, being cowardly,

But whom - since

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our dogs, the Atreidai, sought By taking Troy to get possession of -Always when great Achilles ceased to sulk, (My pony in the stable) forth would prance And put to flight Hector-our page-boy's self.

(j) Examine carefully Von Roessler's Saved (Figure 13, page 299). Be sure that you understand every detail of it. Then write a narrative to which the picture might be an illustration.

(k) Look at the picture entitled Before Paris (Figure 14, page 300). See if you can make up from it a story with the title Surprised.

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(1) You may suppose that a younger brother (or sister) has found the picture on this page (Figure 15) in an old illustrated magazine, of which some of the leaves are badly torn. The lower part of the picture is missing. The child has brought the magazine to you and asked you to tell him a story about this picture.

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In order to do so you must first supply the missing part. The characters that are visible appear to be looking anxiously at some object lying before them. What do you think it is? When you have filled the picture out in imagination on paper, too, if you

wish, and can you are to make up a story to which the picture might be an illustration.

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