As night came on my heart was heavy,
since at night beasts come abroad for their prey. Having cut a short
stick for my defense, I took up my lodging on a bough, and fell fast
asleep. I afterward found I had no reason to fear wild beasts,
for never did I meet any harmful animal.
10. When I awoke it was broad day, the weather was clear and I saw the
ship driven almost to the rock where I had been so bruised.
The ship seeming to stand upright still, I wished myself aboard,
that I might save some necessary things for my use.
(Crusoe shows his good judgment in thinking at once of saving something
from the ship for his after use. While others would have been bemoaning
their fate, he took from the vessel what he knew would prove useful,
and in his very labors he at last found happiness. Not only while his
home-building was new, but even years after, we find him still hard at
work and still inventing new things.)
Questions and Notes. There are two _l_'s in _till_; why not in _until?_
What other words ending in two _l_'s drop one _l_ in compounds?
What two sounds do you find given to _oa_ in the preceding paragraphs?
What is peculiar about _climb? death? dies? night? heart? heavy? since?
beasts? prey? defense? lodging? bough? never? harmful? weather? driven?
bruised? necessary? judgment? others? happiness? build?_
Use the following words in appropriate sentences: _clime, dye, pray,
bow, write, would_.
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