Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


What impressed Saxon most was their excessive jollity, their
childlike joy, and the childlike things they did. This effect was
heightened by the fact that they were novelists and painters,
poets and critics, sculptors and musicians. One man, with a
refined and delicate face--a dramatic critic on a great San
Francisco daily, she was told--introduced a feat which all the
men tried and failed at most ludicrously. On the beach, at
regular intervals, planks were placed as obstacles. Then the
dramatic critic, on all fours, galloped along the sand for all
the world like a horse, and for all the world like a horse taking
hurdles he jumped the planks to the end of the course.

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