Question
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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 quote at least one piece of strong evidence to support your inference from the article
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.
Use the passage above to answer the question.
In 2 sentences, in a 6th graders response explain an inference about Harborough based on the details in the passage, and quote at least one piece of strong evidence to support your inference from the article
Answers
GPT-4o mini
Based on the passage, we can infer that Harborough (the narrator) is adventurous and eager to try new things, especially when it comes to swimming. This is supported by the evidence when he says, "I wanted to bathe in the mid-Atlantic," showing his excitement to take on the challenge of swimming in the ocean despite the Captain's warnings about its dangers.