Which two excerpts are written in a third-person omniscient point of view? long, long ago there lived an old man and his wife who supported themselves by cultivating a small plot of land. (yei theodora ozaki, “the story of the old man who made withered trees to flower”) every morning i lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. the blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could not be seen. (james joyce, the dubliners) you may believe me who adore them, who have long given myself to them without reserve. (anatole france, “the adventures of the soul”) "the lamp! put out the flame and bring me the lamp! " surprised and suspicious, for why should the stranger, out of all such a treasure want only an old lamp, aladdin wondered. (brothers grimm, “the adventures of aladdin”) he was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts. (frank r. stockton, “the lady, or the tiger”)