3. Reynal was gazing intently he began to speak at last "Many a time when I was with the Indians I have been hunting gold all through the Black Hills there's a plenty of it here you may be certain of that I have dreamed about it fifty times" etc.
4. Objects familiar from childhood surrounded me crags and rocks a black and sullen brook that gurgled with a hollow voice among the crevices a wood of mossy distorted trees.
Exercise 192
The colon is used after thus, as follows, the following, or similar expressions; as,
Name the adverbs in the following: He left hurriedly rather early in the morning.
The colon is not used after namely, as, that is, for example, for instance, and the like. Such expressions are preceded by the semicolon and followed by the comma.
Punctuate the following:
1. The Christmas presents that he wants are the following a toy train a toy automobile a toy circus and a printing press.
2. Do the exercise thus first lunge to the left second raise the arms forward and third wind the wand.