Elements of English Composition Author:Tuley Francis Huntington Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and safe. Then, for the first time, we all began to feel that there was something worth hurrying for. Laying hold of a sledge, we hastened with it over the quaki... more »ng pieces and across a chasm in which the water was running like a mill-race, to a place of safety upon the large floe beyond. Three trips there and back we made, each time finding the chasm considerably wider than before. It was all we could do to get the third sledge over, and when we attempted to return for the fourth there was before us a river— a mad-rushing, ice-strewn current. The spot where our camp had stood, and where but a few moments before we had all been at the work of rescue, was in a volcanic state of eruption. Masses of ice were gushing up into the air like flames. The brittle blocks were crushing, grinding, snarling, biting at one another. The sea was rushing'wildly through and over the debris. From within this swirling maelstrom of ice and water came the doleful howling of a number of dogs whose fastenings we had been unable to cut. We stood at the margin of the upheaval and listened. The volume of cry from the dogs became fainter and fainter. Soon it dwindled to the moan of a single dog. A second more, and there was no sound to be heard save the cracking, crunching of the ice, the swishing, hissing of the waters. As I stood there in the storm by the wreck of a great hope I noticed how strangely like the roar of a fierce conflagration were the mutterings of this polar paroxysm. — McClure's Magazine, 14: 405-406. Read the above selection carefully, and then make an outline of one or two paragraphs. You may also use this selection to illustrate the arrangement of material. SECTION 10 How to Write a Theme The ultimate thing to do with your material is to use it. This is the end, and a pleasurabl...« less