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GENERAL METHOD. The immediate story of the water-hole is unfolded by the "rehearsed" method. What gain results from telling in a city restaurant an experience of the wilderness? Study the easy and natural way in which Hardy's story is brought forward. "You've got a concrete instance back of that" (page 18) signifies that the narrator will cite a case to prove his point. Recall other stories told for similar purposes; _e.g._, O. Henry's "The Theory and the Hound."
Study the value of the two "I" narrators in the same story, with respect to increasing verisimilitude and making the reader "believe. " Kipling's "The Courting of Dinah Shadd," for example, uses the same tactics.