Girl at the piano
I don't understand these sentences. It talks about the ditch, how come there are flambeaux? The flambeaux in the ditch? It doesn't make any sense. Could anyone explain it to me? "Down a block they had put in new pipes under the street and dug a swell deep ditch. The flambeaux around the edge were bright and red in the dark. She wouldn't wait to climb down. She ran until she reached the little wavy flames and then she jumped."
Jul 7, 2021 3:31 PM
Answers · 5
I don't know when this writing is from. Flambeaux means flaming torches. If this is from a time before electricity, it is possible they lit torches around the edge of the ditch to show where it was at night.
July 7, 2021
The flambeaux must be the light they use to make the ditch visible at night? Maybe. Where did this come from?
July 7, 2021
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