Match the characters from Ambrose Bierce’s “A Horseman in the Sky” to the excerpt that best illustrates each character’s perspective.
Tiles
- Carter Druse 2. Carters Father 3. the Federal Officer
Pairs
AFilled with amazement and terror
by this apparition of a horseman
in the sky—half believing himself
the chosen scribe of some new
Apocalypse. Overcome by the
intensity of his emotions; his
legs failed him and he fell.
BBut no—there is a hope; he may
have discovered nothing—perhaps
he is but admiring the sublimity of
the landscape. If permitted, he may
turn and ride carelessly away in the
direction whence he came.
C"Well, go, sir, and whatever may
occur do what you conceive to be
your duty. Virginia, to which you are
a traitor, must get on without you.
Should we both live to the end of the
war, we will speak further of the matter."
