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Brian BoitanoBrian Anthony Boitano (b Oct 22, 1963 - ) from San Francisco, California is an American figure skater. Once a champion in the amateur ranks, he is now a professional skater.
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From his bare head his long hair streamed upward,
horse.html">horse's lifted mane. The animal's body was as level as if every
wild gallop, but even as the officer looked they ceased, with all the
this was a flight!
Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the
officer was overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his legs failed
the trees - a sound that died without an echo - and all was still.
The officer rose to his feet, trembling. The familiar sensation of an
ran obliquely away from the cliff.html">cliff to a point distant from its foot.html">foot;
failed. In the fleeting instant of his vision his imagination had been
marvelous performance that it did not occur to him that the line of
objects of his search at the very foot of the cliff. A half-hour later
truth. He said nothing of what he had seen. But when the commander asked
expedition, he answered:
"Yes, sir; there is no road leading down into this valley from the
resumed his watch. Ten minutes had hardly passed when a Federal sergeant.html">sergeant
head nor looked at him, but lay without motion or sign of recognition.
"Did you fire?" the sergeant whispered.
"At what?"
"A horse. It was standing on yonder rock-pretty far out. You see it is
answered, he turned away his eyes and said no more. The sergeant did not
making a mystery. I order you to report. Was there anybody on the
and A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce with an introduction by W.
Jenkins. Of this first edition one thousand copies have been issued
Nash published by Paul Elder and Company and done into a book for. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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