question: CHAPTER VIII

And these two, as I have told you, Were the friends of Hiawatha, Chibiabos, the musician, And the very strong man, Kwasind.

--Hiawatha.

TORPENHOW was paging the last sheets of some manuscript, while the Nilghai, who had come for chess and remained to talk tactics, was reading through the first part, commenting scornfully the while.

'It's picturesque enough and it's sketchy,' said he; 'but as a serious consideration of affairs in Eastern Europe, it's not worth much.'

'It's off my hands at any rate.... Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine slips altogether, aren't there? That should make between eleven and twelve pages of valuable misinformation. Heigho!' Torpenhow shuffled the writing together and hummed--

Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell, If I'd as much money as I could tell, I never would cry, Young lambs to sell!

Dick entered, self-conscious and a little defiant, but in the best of tempers with all the world.

'Back at last?' said Torpenhow.

'More or less. What have you been doing?'

'Work. Dickie, you behave as though the Bank of England were behind you. Here's Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday gone and you haven't done a line. It's scandalous.'

'The notions come and go, my children--they come and go like our 'baccy,' he answered, filling his pipe. 'Moreover,' he stooped to thrust a spill into the grate, 'Apollo does not always stretch his---- Oh, confound your clumsy jests, Nilghai!'

'This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration,' said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall. 'We believe in cobblers' wax. La!--where you sit down.'
1. What was to be sold?
2. Who was humming?
3. And what else at the time?
4. What?
5. Did Hiawatha have any friends?
6. How many?
7. Name one?
8. What does he do?
9. And the other?
10. Is he weak?
11. Who came in?
12. Was he in a good mood?
13. How many days had he not written anything?
14. Which days?
15. Who came to play a game?
16. What game?
17. What did they discuss?
18. How many sheets were of bad information?
19. What did he put in his pipe?
20. Where did the bellows go?
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answer: 1. Young lambs.
2. Torpenhow
3. shuffled
4. The writing
5. Yes
6. Two
7. Chibiabos
8. A musician
9. Kwasind.
10. A very strong man
11. Dick
12. The best.
13. Three
14. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
15. The Nilghai.
16. Chess.
17. Tactics
18. Eleven to twelve.
19. 'baccy,'
20. To their nail on the wall

question: Jimmy swam around the pond. He was a duck. He was wet, but he was a duck and didn't care. He ate some bugs. He saw some worms on the bottom, but wasn't interested in them, or in the bread crumbs, or the hot dog the boy had dropped. He kept on swimming and swimming. He was a mess. After he had eaten his food, it was afternoon. The sun was setting, and Jimmy wanted to rest in the sun, and sleep. He found a nice place to sit, and began to rest. Falling asleep quickly, he slept for a few hours. When he woke up it was dark outside. He had missed dinnertime, but there were always those worms at the bottom of the pond. Jimmy ate quickly, and was soon ready to swim more. The pond was small, not a lake, or a river or a stream. He swam around for a little longer, and soon it was ready for bed in the nest, where he slept with his family Billy, Susie, and Doug. The other animals were sleeping as well, the dog and the cat on the porch. The cow was sleeping in the barn. And last the kittens in their box. Jimmy was ready for bed, it had been a long day, and the next day was going to be the same. But Jimmy did not care. He loved being a duck. Jimmy was one happy duck.
1. Was Jimmy happy?
2. Where did Jimmy swim?
3. What was Jimmy?
4. What did he eat?
5. Did he eat any worms?
6. When was it after he'd eaten his food?
7. What did he want to do in the sun?
8. For how long?
9. Was it morning when he woke?
10. Did he get home for dinner?
11. What did he eat instead?
12. Was the pond huge?
13. What were the names of his family?
14. Who slept on the porch?
15. Did the cow sleep on the porch too?
16. Where were the kittens?
17. What would the next day be like?
18. What did he love?
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answer: 1. yes
2. the pond
3. a duck
4. some bugs
5. no
6. afternoon
7. rest and sleep
8. a few hours
9. no
10. no
11. worms
12. no
13. Billy, Susie and Doug
14. the dog and cat
15. no
16. in their box
17. the same
18. being a duck

question: (CNN)Juniper and Violet are best friends who are both battling the same rare form of cancer.

They also shared a dream to visit "the happiest place on Earth" -- Disneyland.

Violet's wish came true in December 2013, thanks to Make-A-Wish Foundation. When the nonprofit group granted 3-year-old Juniper's wish in October, they offered Violet the chance to share the news to her beloved friend.

Violet, now 4, jumped at the idea, appearing in a heartwarming video posted on YouTube. The video has been viewed more than 100,000 times since being posted on Thursday, and it's drawing unusually positive comments for the video platform, which is notorious for its anonymous, at-times snarky commenters.

Dressed in the same glittering Cinderella costume she wore on her own Make-A-Wish trip, Violet twirls around her bedroom, bubbling with excitement.

"You're going to Disneyland!" she squeals.

Danielle Ouellette, Juniper's mother, says her daughter cheered when she saw the video.

"She was super excited to see Violet and she knows what Disneyland is, so she got really excited," she said.

The girls met in November 2013 and became treatment buddies at Seattle Children's Hospital while battling retinoblastoma, a cancer that forms in the eye's retina. Violet lives in Gig Harbor, Washington, and Juniper lives in Everett.

The girls formed an instant bond when they first met, Violet's mother, Shenay Spataro, said.

Hospital staffers became accustomed to seeing the girls playing together, Spataro said.

"They just hugged each other for so long. Danielle [Juniper's mother] and I were both in tears," she said.
1. What is known as the happiest place on earth?
2. Who did the Make A Wish Foundation send there in October 2013?
3. How about December 2013?
4. Does this group work for profit?
5. What type of organization are they?
6. How old was Violet when she posted a video to You Tube?
7. How many views has it received?
8. Since when?
9. What types of comments has it been receiving?
10. Are the commenters usually anonymous?
11. What else?
12. All the time?
13. What was Violet wearing in the video?
14. Was it dull?
15. How would you describe it?
16. How did Juniper react to the video?
17. When did the girls meet?
18. Where?
19. What disease were they battling?
20. Where does it form?
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answer:
1. Disneyland
2. Juniper
3. Violet
4. no
5. nonprofit
6. Four
7. more than 100,000 times
8. since Thursday
9. unusually positive
10. yes
11. snarky
12. at-times
13. Cinderella costume
14. no
15. glittering
16. super excited
17. November 2013
18. Seattle Children's Hospital
19. retinoblastoma
20. eye's retina