An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge Story Board
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- "Some loose boards laid upon the tie supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners--two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff"
- "One evening while Farquhar an his wife were sitting on a rustic bench near the entrance to his grounds, a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water. While she (Mrs.Farquhar) was fecthing the water her husband approached the dusty horseman and inquired eagerly for new from the front"
- "His whole body was racked and wrenched with an insupportable anguish! But his disobedient hands gave no heed to the command. They beat the water vigorously with quick, downward strokes, forcing him to the surface"
- "' Attention, company!... Shoulder arms!... Ready!... Aim!... Fire!"'
- "In a few moments he was flung upon the gravel at the foot of the left bank of the stream- the southern bank- and behind a projecting point which concealed him from his enemies. The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hands on the gravel, restored him, and he wept with delight"
- "All that day he traveled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodman's road. He had not known that he lived in so wild a region. There was something uncanny in the revelation"
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