Freeman had promised Cousin Jim, and himself, that he would go duck hunting again--and had meant it. This was in the first glow, but the first glow died. The discomforts gradually came to be uppermost in his mind. He began to look back on the excellence of his endurance with a little wonder and considerable pride. But he shrank from its repetition. There was no doubt that he had enjoyed the experience, but unless fairly forced into it by circumstances he would never voluntarily pay so much in feline comfort for that kind of enjoyment. The unaccustomed struggle made it not worth while. He had always overindulged his body, and now he could not fight it. Never did he abandon the fiction that he wanted to go duck hunting again, but was prevented by untoward circumstances from accepting the invitations; and always he clung tenaciously to the prideful pose of one who hunted ducks on incredibly cold mornings and made nothing of it. But he did not go again. Cousin Jim was sorry for this. Whenever Freeman’s name came up for discussion Cousin Jim thenceforward took pains to say that he was not so bad after all, if he would only give himself a chance. Even when the occasion was in the nature of a praise meeting for Freeman, Cousin Jim made this remark; which Freeman’s friends resented as uncalled for. Nevertheless, somehow, Cousin Jim seemed to consider Freeman’s mere existence required some sort of defense or explanation, and he was always glad to offer it. From _The Glory Hole_ by Stewart Edward White. Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Company. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INCIDENTS The editors have found these additional selections very useful in teaching the writing of incidents: Byrne, Donn. _Messer Marco Polo_, Chapter I. The Century Company. Goldsmith, Oliver. _The Vicar of Wakefield_, Chapter XIV, _Fresh Mortifications_. Hémon, Louis. _Maria Chapdelaine_, Chapter IX, _One Thousand Aves_. The Macmillan Company. Hudson, W. H. _Far Away and Long Ago_, Chapter III, _The Death of an Old Dog_. E. P. Dutton & Company. Wiggin, Kate Douglas. _A Child’s Journey with Dickens_ in _My Garden of Memory_. Houghton Mifflin Company. CHAPTER III _Historical Narrative_