Ernest Hemingway · 1925
Questions on the text, each answered in the book’s own words, with the minute you hear it.
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Answer A Wagner apple
“Nick stopped and picked up a Wagner apple from beside the road, shiny in the brown grass from the rain.”
Answer Wemedge
“the door of the cottage opened and Bill came out. He stood on the porch looking out. “Well, Wemedge,” he said.”
Answer Ten Mile point
“The wind was blowing straight down the lake. They could see the surf along Ten Mile point.”
Answer Three days
“She’ll blow like that for three days,” Bill said.”
Answer Out with the gun
“No. He’s out with the gun. Come on in.”
Answer The peat
“It’s got a swell, smoky taste,” Nick said, and looked at the fire through the glass. “That’s the peat,” Bill said.”
Answer Rubber blankets
“They moved the cots back out of the rain and covered them with rubber blankets.”
Answer Dropped a double header to the Giants
“What did the Cards do?” “Dropped a double header to the Giants.”
Answer Heinie Zim
“Or he makes them discontented so they have to trade them to him.” “Like Heinie Zim,” Nick agreed.”
Answer New York or Philadelphia
“Well, they’re always in New York or Philadelphia now,” Bill said.”
Answer Richard Feverel
“What are you reading?” “’Richard Feverel.’”
Answer The Forest Lovers
“Did you read the ‘Forest Lovers’?” “Yup. That’s the one where they go to bed every night with the naked sword between them.”
Answer Russia
“Have you got any more by Walpole?” “’The Dark Forest,’” Bill said. “It’s about Russia.”
Answer To the ‘Voix
“I wish he was here now,” Nick said. “We’d take him fishing to the ‘Voix tomorrow.”
Answer Opening bottles
“He says opening bottles is what makes drunkards,” Bill explained.”
Answer A painter
“Well, he’s a doctor. My old man’s a painter. That’s different.”
Answer One of the big beech chunks
“Bring one of the big beech chunks,” Bill said.”
Answer Dried apricots
“It had contained dried apricots, soaking in water.”
Answer Scotch
“He kneeled down in the corner in front of the locker and brought out a square-faced bottle. “It’s Scotch,” he said.”
Answer Fishing
“Let’s drink to fishing,” Bill said. “All right,” Nick said. “Gentlemen, I give you fishing.”
Answer The girl who works for Strattons
“any more than if I’d marry Ida that works for Strattons. She’d probably like it, too.”
Answer Charlevoix
“Then he had planned to stay in Charlevoix all winter so he could be near Marge.”
Answer Thursday
“He might go into town Saturday night. Today was Thursday.”
Answer A woodcock
“I saw a woodcock this morning,” Bill said.”
Answer Down in the swamp
“Against the wind they heard the thud of a shotgun. “That’s dad,” Bill said. “He’s down in the swamp.”
“The Three-Day Blow,” first published in In Our Time (Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925). This text follows the Wikisource transcription of the 1925 first edition. Public domain in the United States.