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[1] The obituary was written by Mr. Felix King, but the two lines
of poetry were composed by Miss Sara Ray.
MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE
My most exciting adventure was the day I fell off Uncle Roger's
loft two years ago. I wasn't excited until it was all over
because I hadn't time to be. The Story Girl and I were looking
for eggs in the loft. It was filled with wheat straw nearly to
the roof and it was an awful distance from us to the floor. And
wheat straw is so slippery. I made a little spring and the straw
slipped from under my feet and there I was going head first down
from the loft. It seemed to me I was an awful long time falling,
but the Story Girl says I couldn't have been more than three
seconds. But I know that I thought five thoughts and there seemed
to be quite a long time between them. The first thing I thought
was, what has happened, because I really didn't know at first, it
was so sudden. Then after a spell I thought the answer, I am
falling off the loft. And then I thought, what will happen to me
when I strike the floor, and after another little spell I thought,
I'll be killed. And then I thought, well, I don't care. I really
wasn't a bit frightened. I just was quite willing to be killed.
If there hadn't been a big pile of chaff on the barn floor these
words would never have been written.
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