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7. I walked about on the shore, my whole being wrapped up in thinking
of what I had been through, and thanking God for my deliverance.
Not one soul had been saved but myself. Nor did I afterward see any
sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes.
8. I soon began to look about me. I had no change of clothes,
nor anything either to eat or drink; nor did I see anything before me
but dying of hunger or being eaten by wild beasts.
(Crusoe afterward cast up a sort of ledger account of the good and evil
in his lot. On the side of evil he placed, first, the fact that he had
been thrown upon a bare and barren island, with no hope of escape.
Against this he set the item that he alone had been saved.
On the side of evil he noted that he had no clothes; but on the other
hand, this was a warm climate, where he could hardly wear clothes if he
had them. Twenty-five years later he thought he would be perfectly
happy if he were not in terror of men coming to his island--who,
he feared, might eat him.)
Questions and Notes. How do you remember the _ie_ in _believe, grief,_
etc.? Give several illustrations from the above paragraphs of the
principle that we have a double consonant (in an accented penultimate
syllable) after a short vowel.
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