英语经典美文诵读100篇：093.a message to garcia

[00:05.23]093.A Message to Garcia [00:11.50]In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. [00:20.98]When war broke out between Spain and the United States, [00:24.65]it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. [00:30.62]Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba - no one knew where. [00:37.19]No mail or telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly. What to do? [00:47.62]Some said to the President, “There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan who will find Garcia for you, if anybody can.” [00:56.63]Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. [01:01.90]How the “fellow by the name of Rowan” took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, [01:09.59]strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, [01:17.02]disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, [01:24.58]having traversed a hostile country on foot and delivered his letter to Garcia - [01:30.96]are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. [01:36.61]The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; [01:46.59]Rowan took the letter and did not ask, “Where is he at?” [01:52.23]By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze [01:59.35]and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young men need, [02:07.94]nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, [02:17.46]to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing - “Carry a message to Garcia.” [02:29.42]General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. [02:34.87]No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, [02:40.94]but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man - [02:47.04]the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. [02:53.55]Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half hearted work seem the rule; [03:03.94]and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat he forces or bribes other men to assist him; [03:12.40]or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant.

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