Q: CHAPTER XV.

COASTING.

The current was now losing its power, and Godfrey, dipping his hand into the water and then putting it to his lips, found that it was distinctly brackish, and congratulated himself upon having laid in a stock of water when he did. After Luka had slept for six hours, Godfrey roused him.

"Now, Luka, you must take my place and steer; move very carefully else we shall capsize her. That is it. Now, if there is any change you lean forward and touch me; I shall wake in a moment. If the sail should shift over to the other side all you have got to do is to shift this sheet to its fastening on that side. With this light wind jibing does not matter at all, but if the wind freshens wake me at once."

For a quarter of an hour Godfrey watched to see that Luka steered steadily, then he worked himself down in the cockpit and closed his eyes. It did not seem to him that he had been asleep long when Luka touched him.

"I would not have woke you," Luka said; "but the land seems going right away from us."

Godfrey sat up. "So it is, Luka! I should not be surprised if that is the extreme northern point. Of course it may be only a deep bay, but at any rate we must see." He looked at his watch, "Why, I have been asleep nearly seven hours. Now, Luka, you had better haul the boat alongside, and see about cooking. We forgot to try those onions yesterday. Cut one up small and put it in the pan with the meat. By the by, you had better tie a piece of cord to those four bears' hams, and let them tow overboard for two or three hours. The water must be quite salt now, and when you take them out we will rub a little fresh salt into them. They ought to keep well then."

1. Godfrey
2. Luka
3. For a quarter of an hour
4. yes
5. not long
6. it would capsize
7. shift this sheet
8. yes
9. jibing matters
10. no
11. it was distinctly brackish,
12. yes
13. six hours
14. to see about cooking
15. yes
16. onions
17. bears' hams
18. four
19. two or three hours.
20. rub a little fresh salt into them.

Numbered questions:
1. Who wanted to take a nap?
2. Who did he wake to take over?
3. How long did he observe to make sure he was steering correctly?
4. Was he able to nap then?
5. For how long?
6. What would happen to the ship if Luka did badly?
7. What should he do if the sails change sides?
8. Even if the winds are gentle?
9. what if they get a lot stronger though?
10. Are the currents getting stronger and stronger?
11. Was the water clear or spoiled?
12. Is there any backup?
13. How long did Luka get to sleep?
14. What is Luka set to do when Godfrey wakes up?
15. Are there any vegetables?
16. What kind?
17. What is he to drag in the waters?
18. How many?
19. For how long?
20. And then do what with them?

Q: (CNN) -- "Beware the fury of the patient man." -- John Dryden

In January, 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was pledging to take over Palestine. In the United States, a "sensational new RCA Victor Star," just days away from cracking the music charts with his first hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," was touring with Hank Snow and the stars of Grand Old Opry. Norma Jeane Mortenson was preparing to change her name.

Also that month, a fresh-faced U.S. senator gave Richard Nixon an autographed copy of his second book, "Profiles in Courage".

In that best-seller, John F. Kennedy applauded leaders with the courage to represent "the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority." That "silent majority" was a constituency neither Nixon nor the country would forget: Fifty-six years later, Mitt Romney is counting on it to win the presidency.

Nixon could have thanked Kennedy's hardcover for one of his many resurrections. His appeal to the "silent majority" turned around his political fortunes, driving his approval ratings from the mid-50s to more than 80%.

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His pivotal speech contrasted a "vocal minority" of idealistic but impractical, young, anti-Vietnam protestors, cultural elites and intellectuals with their stodgy parents, older, blue-collar, working-class Americans. Until Nixon drew the silent majority from the shadows, their simmering outrage at the left's lack of respect for time-tested American values was undetected.

Political historian Teddy White characterized the split between "what the silent people think" and what the country's "more important thinkers think." He wrote, "Never have America's leading cultural media, its university thinkers, its influence makers been more intrigued by experiment and change; but in no election have the mute masses more completely separated themselves from such leadership and thinking."

1. Richard Nixon an autographed copy of his second book, "Profiles in Courage".
2. January
3. Gamal Abdel Nasser
4. Yes
5. take over Palestine
6. Victor Star
7. Yes
8. Hank Snow
9. yes
10. Stars of Grand Old Opry

Numbered questions:
1. who wrote the book
2. in what month did this occur?
3. who was the leader of egypt?
4. did he pledge to do something?
5. what?
6. who was on tour?
7. was he with anyone?
8. who?
9. anyone else?
10. who?