Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
LitReading - Classic Short Stories
I Made It!
"I named them in an instant, "Flames!" And I was right too, though these were the very first flames that had ever been in the world. They climbed the trees, then flashed splendidly in and out of the vast and increasing volume of tumbling smoke." Adam tried once more to persuade him to stop going over the falls because he hadn't discovered fear yet. He turned away and left me. That was because the fire had revealed to me a new passion. Quite new and distinctly different from love, grief and all those others which I had already discovered. Fear gives me dark moments and it spoils my happiness. It makes me shiver and tremble and shudder.
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