De Amerikaanse schrijver Zane Grey werd geboren op 31 januari 1872 in Zanesville, Ohio. Zie ook mijn blog van 31 januari 2010.
Uit: George Washington, Frontiersman
“The two men stood on the porch looking out into the cold Virginia night, conversing softly. “Well, Augustine, you are about to become a father again. How do you feel about it?”
“Humble, I suppose,” Augustine replied. “Though Jane and I had children before she died, this child is Mary’s first, and we have many plans for him. If it’s a boy, we plan to call him George, after our sovereign.”
“Ah, things will become different—quite different—I’ll wager,” said the other man, “between what you know of English royalty and what your George will know. You never were much of a hand to talk politics, and you seem not to care a hoot what becomes of these American colonies. If it is a boy, I predict that he will grow into a man who will take an interest in our conditions here. It would serve you right if he turned out not to be so loyal to the king he is going to be named after. But I will not bore you any more with such chatter.… We must talk and think of what a beautiful night it was last night. And that great white screaming comet that paled all the stars—how magnificent! This man Halley who calls himself an astronomer, his father boiled soap, made himself wealthy, and this son sees a comet—when was it? 1682—and predicts that it would show again seventy-six years later. By jove, he was right! It occurs to me that we won’t either of us live to see the next one.”
A Negro slave girl came running out upon the porch and cried, “Massa Washington, Massa Doctor, the time has come.”
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Four tranquil February the twenty-seconds passed over the Bridge Creek plantation, adding years to Augustine’s life, new cultivated acres to his plantation, and numbers to his slaves. Mary was fond of commenting on her young son’s precociousness. “He’s very much different from the others,” she said often to her patient husband.”
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Zane Grey (31 januari 1872 – 23 oktober 1939)
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