Ernest Hemingway · 1927
Questions on the text, each answered in the book’s own words, with the minute you hear it.
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Answer Nine
“passed nine drunken Indians along the road. He remembered there were nine because Joe Garner, driving along in the dusk, pulled up the horses”
Answer Dragged him into the bushes
“Joe dragged him into the bushes and got back up on the wagon-box.”
Answer Killing a snake
“Pa was down into the road and back up again before I seen a thing. I thought he was killing a snake.”
Answer Harbour Springs
“He saw the lights of Petoskey and, off across Little Traverse Bay, the lights of Harbour Springs.”
Answer Skunks
“I saw two skunks last night,” Nick said.”
Answer Prudence Mitchell
“He has too, Pa,” Frank said. “Prudence Mitchell’s his girl.”
Answer Kerosene
“Mrs. Garner was building a fire in the stove. She turned from pouring kerosene on the wood.”
Answer In the wagon at Garner's
“I left them in the wagon at Garner’s.”
Answer A piece of cold chicken and a pitcher of milk
“His father brought in a piece of cold chicken on a plate and a pitcher of milk and put them on the table before Nick.”
Answer Petoskey, five to three
“Who won the ball game?” “Petoskey. Five to three.”
Answer Huckleberry
“His father reached over to the shelf for the pie. He cut Nick a big piece. It was huckleberry pie.”
Answer Frank Washburn
“She was in the woods with Frank Washburn. I ran onto them. They were having quite a time.”
Answer Up back of the camp
“Where were they in the woods?” Nick asked. “Up back of the camp.”
Answer His heart
“If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”
Answer The wind in the hemlock trees and the waves of the lake
“When he awoke in the night he heard the wind in the hemlock trees outside the cottage and the waves of the lake coming in on the shore”
“Ten Indians,” first published in Men Without Women (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1927). This text follows the Project Gutenberg transcription (#69683). Public domain in the United States.