In this passage, we can infer that Harborough is an adventurous and curious person who seeks new experiences. This is shown when he expresses his desire to bathe in the mid-Atlantic, even though the Captain thinks it's dangerous, which highlights Harborough's willingness to take risks for excitement.
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The Reward of Enterprise
by Ward Muir
A project was forming in my mind. I looked at the water. It was a peculiar, vitreous green, closer under the steamer, was transparent to the depth of many feet. Beneath my shoe-soles the poop was hot; over side, the sea looked inexpressibly inviting. And on a sudden I turned to the drowsing Captain and exclaimed: "I want to bathe."
"To bathe?" The Captain gazed at me
"Why not?"
The Captain yawned out some lethargic suggestion to the effect that to bathe would be dangerous because of the depth-as though I'd be more apt to drown in three miles of water than in three fathoms.
Seafaring people are odd in that way— don't mean in their ignorance of swimming, though, to be sure, the average sailor is seldom a swimmer.
They re so now shall I express it?- so unenterprising. In the midst of adventure and romance they are stirred by no recognition either of the adventures or the romantic.
Twas a city-bred youngster, who had never been out of hail of the homeland before, and I possessed more enterprise in my little finger than that far-travelled Captain had in the whole of his weather-worn, hulking lump of a carcass. I wanted to bathe. I wanted to bathe in the mid-Atlantic. I nad leamt to bathe in the public swimming-bath near my old school, and now I wanted to try a swimming-bath three miles deep and tiling continuously at an angle of I don't know how many degrees. The notion was gorgeous.
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In 2 sentences, in a 6th graders response explain an inference about Harborough based on the details in the passage, and provide at least one piece of strong evidence to support your inference from the article
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