402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
The History of Literature
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Is That Idiot With the Coat Mean?
Look, there comes something up the beach. Why it looks like a boat? Why? Certainly it's a boat. No, it's on wheels. Well, that must be the lifeboat. They drag them alongshore on a wagon. That's an omnibus. I can see it plain. See one of those big hoteloi es by thunder, you're right. It's an omnbus, sure as fate. Maybe they are going around collecting the life crew. Eh, that's it likely. Oh, say, there isn't any life saving station there. That's just a winter resort hotel omnibus that has brought over some of the boarders to see us drown.
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