Which detail from the passage BEST supports Rainsford's survival skills? Rainsford had dug himself in in France when a second's delay meant death. That had
been a placid pastime compared to his digging now. The pit grew deeper.
Rainsford, crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lived
a year in a minute. Then he felt an impulse to cry aloud with joy,
ee, I read
in my life,
He knew his pursuer was coming; he heard the padding sound of feet on the soft earth,
and the night breeze brought him the perfume of the general's cigarette.
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Then, as he stepped forward, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back,
but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech.
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