He is handsome and strong, who always brags about the number of fights he had been in while on the other hand, Ichabod is lean, and lanky who looks like a scarecrow. One night Ichabod attend a party at Van Tassel’s place where he also danced with Katrina while Brom Bones watches them. After dance, everyone sits to listen to haunting stories especially about Headless Horseman. Later, Ichabod a little frightened by such stories reluctantly ride on horse, Gunpowder to ride back home. On his way home, he is chased by Headless Horseman.
Book 2 Ch. 1 The chapter begins with Father Joseph Vaillant returning from a visit to Albuquerque. He contemplates the people of Santo Domingo, who will come to hear but will not allow their children to be baptized. The Spanish have mistreated them long ago, and they do not forget. Father Joseph rides a wind-broken horse, sold to him by a Yankee trader, which he believes is evidence of his own mistreatment.
Act three In this act Kate is at the alter waiting to get married when Petruchio shows up late wearing shabby clothes and riding a broken down old horse that was sick. Here the comedic device is an unexpected plot twist. People didn’t expect Petruchio to show up to a wedding in shabby clothes riding a broken down horse just to humiliate Kate to get her to submit to his every will. Act four In this act Petruchio brings Kate home after the wedding. He has a plan that
A flashback in the story reveals that a Union soldier disguised as a Confederate soldier lures Farquhar to demolish the bridge, but Farquhar is caught in the act. When Farquhar is hanged, the rope breaks, he escaped, and runs home to his beautiful wife and children. At the end, it is revealed that Farquhar never escaped and imagined everything between falling off the bridge and his last breath. Farquhar imagined a several hour event in a matter of seconds. How can someone visualize a non-realistic event in such a short period of time?
He is caught again along with the girl he met on the train to Scotland (Pamela.) They escape from the car aided by a flock of sheep. After posing as a newlywed couple to get a room for the night, they head back to the Mr Memory show (the next day.) As the spies close in on Hannay and Pamela, Hannay rushes to the front and asks Mr Memory “what are the 39 Steps?” Professional to the end he begins to answer and is shot by Professor Jordan. Professor Jordan tries to run and is surrounded by the police.
But first he was thinking in asking his mother for money. His mother was the one who kept all his money from working in the fields. He convinced his mother to give him the two dollars that the gun was worth, by saying that the gun will be for his father because they don’t know what will happen in the house. But he did not give the gun to his father, he decided to keep it. At the next day after he bought the gun he decided to leave his house, it was not yet daylight.
Later on that night Dave struggles getting his mother to agree on buying him gun but then she decides Dave can go buy the gun but they will give it to his father. As soon as she placed it in his hand, he jetted out the door that night to claim his prize. The next morning Dave just couldn’t resist himself, he got up early and headed straight to Jim Hawkins’ plantation with the gun. Hawkins saw him and thought he was there to work earlier making him hitch Jenny the mule to a plow and head to the fields. After doing two rows and he and Jenny were far enough from earshot, he pulled out the gun and decided it was time to shoot.
Their young captive, a malevolent, redheaded brat who calls himself Red Chief, actually enjoys his stay with his kidnappers, and thinks he is on a camping trip. Red Chief proceeds to drive his captors to distraction with pranks and demands that they play wearying games with him, such as pretending to be a scout and using Bill as his horse. Bill and Sam are soon desperate to get rid of the little terror; they lower the price and ask $1,500. They later receive a reply to their ransom letter from Red Chief's father; knowing perfectly well what a handful Red Chief is, he rejects their ransom but instead offers to take the boy back off their hands for $250. When the men bring Red Chief to his home, he
One night Jonathan and his family are robbed. Showing them that doe the war is officially over it still goes on between the people. In the story “The Open Window”, “going hunting” is taken literally because some of the characters do in fact go hunting. In this story the fifteen year old niece tricks the guest into believing that the father son and dog died on a hunting trip and that the wife/mother leaves the window open as if they were to return. But as the story goes they cannot because they’re dead.
He was very suspicious about their message but after thinking about it he went too met up with him. He then brought with him ten men and one of then went walking with him to the front door, and as he was about to open the door. The solider inside opened the door and shot two bullets to Zapata at point blank Range without letting him letting him get out his pistol, Zapata’s army leader fell down never to rise from the ground again (guaitt, pg 29). “it was said that he was riding his white horse with his black clothing around the mountains for years after he was shot” (Guaitt, pg )16. Pancho villa and Emiliano Zapata both accomplished many things well they were alive in the revolution they got the government to give the land back.