Saturday Klepto
Jan. 24th, 2009 06:23 pm1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Six or eight horses could easily have fitted into it, and its sides weren't too steep to go up and down. Thowra went very carefully round the edge, his nose curling suspciously, then walked on, through the trees at the side of the flat.
He stopped quite close to the gambolling horses.
"I am going right round the flat keeping in the fringe of the trees," he said. He looked at Lightning, who was looking only at the young horses in the shining mist, then at Baringa. Baringa looked from Thowra to the young horses, and back to Thowra.
"When I have had a good wander round I will return to the main herd," said Thowra, "and then to the Secret Valley.
- from Silver Brumbies of the South by Elyne Mitchell (my favourite book from my childhood)
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Six or eight horses could easily have fitted into it, and its sides weren't too steep to go up and down. Thowra went very carefully round the edge, his nose curling suspciously, then walked on, through the trees at the side of the flat.
He stopped quite close to the gambolling horses.
"I am going right round the flat keeping in the fringe of the trees," he said. He looked at Lightning, who was looking only at the young horses in the shining mist, then at Baringa. Baringa looked from Thowra to the young horses, and back to Thowra.
"When I have had a good wander round I will return to the main herd," said Thowra, "and then to the Secret Valley.
- from Silver Brumbies of the South by Elyne Mitchell (my favourite book from my childhood)