one minute to two o'clock
A very small boy was trying to push a large india-rubber ball into his mouth , but his mouth was not big enough to hold it , and he wept because of his limitations . He was towed along by his sister , a girl so tall that one might say her legs reached to heaven , and maybe they did . He looked again at the hour . It was one minute to two o'clock ; and then something happened . The whole white world became red . The oldest seas in the world went suddenly lashing into storm . An ocean of blood thundered into his head , and the noise of that primitive flood , roaring from what prehistoric gulfs , deafened him at an instant .