question: CHAPTER THREE.

DESCRIBES THE DEED OF AN AMATEUR MATADOR AND THE WORK OF A ROUGH-AND-READY SHOEMAKER.

When the day began to break Hockins awoke, and his first impulse was to shout "hold on!" Ebony's first action was to let go, thereby bringing himself to the ground with an awful thud, which would have told severely on any one less akin to india-rubber.

For a few minutes Mark Breezy, holding tight to his particular branch, looked down at his companions, yawned heavily, and smiled a little. Then a sudden impulse of memory caused him to look grave.

"Come," he said, dropping lightly from his perch, "these natives may have been searching for us all night, and are perhaps nearer than we suppose. I vote that we push on at once."

"Agreed," said Hockins, stretching himself.

"No fear, Massa," remarked the negro. "If it wur moonlight dey might 'ave search, but whar de nights am dark dey knows better. De niggahs in dis yer island hab got skins an' eyes an' noses. If dey was to go troo such woods in de dark, dey hab no skins or eyes or noses in de mornin'-- leas'wise nuffin' wuth mentionin'. Cause why? Dey'd all git knocked into a sorter mush. Plenty ob time for breakfast 'fore we start."

"That's true, boy," said Hockins, "but where's the breakfast to come from?"

"What! you no bringed nuffin' in your pockits?" asked the negro with a look of visible anxiety on his expressive face.

Hockins turned his various pockets inside out by way of reply.
1. Who agreed with someone?
2. What time did Hotchins wake up
3. Do the natives search at night?
4. In waking what did he first want to do?
5. if the natives searched at night, what might they lose?
6. so they would be healthy?
7. what would they get turned into
8. could they have food?
9. did they bring any food?
10. who stayed in the tree a little longer?
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answer: 1. Hockins,
2. morning
3. yes
4. to shout
5. their skin, eyes, and noses
6. no
7. mush
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. Mark Breezy,

question: CHAPTER III: Reddy Is Sure Granny Has Lost Her Senses

Perhaps 'tis just as well that we Can't see ourselves as others see. --Old Granny Fox.

"Just as I thought," muttered Reddy Fox as he peeped through the bushes on the bank of the Big River and saw Quacker swimming about in the water where it ran too swiftly to freeze. "We've got just as much chance of catching him as I have of jumping over the moon. That's what I'll tell Granny."

He crept back carefully so as not to be seen by Quacker, and when he had reached the place where Granny was waiting for him, his face wore a very impudent look.

"Well," said Granny Fox, "what shall we do to catch him?"

"Learn to swim like a fish and fly like a bird," replied Reddy in such a saucy tone that Granny had hard work to keep from boxing his ears.

"You mean that you think he can't be caught?" said she quietly.

"I don't think anything about it; I know he can't!" snapped Reddy. "Not by us, anyway," he added.

"I suppose you wouldn't even try?" retorted Granny.

"I'm old enough to know when I'm wasting my time," replied Reddy with a toss of his head.

"In other words you think I'm a silly old Fox who has lost her senses," said Granny sharply.

"No-o. I didn't say that," protested Reddy, looking very uncomfortable.

"But you think it," declared Granny. "Now look here, Mr. Smarty, you do just as I tell you. You creep back there where you can watch Quacker and all that happens, and mind that you keep out of his sight. Now go."
1. Where was Reddy?
2. Where were the bushes?
3. Which one?
4. Who was he looking at?
5. Who did he go find next?
6. Did he tell Granny that Quacker could not be caught?
7. What would they have to do?
8. And?
9. Was his tone nice?
10. What did Granny have to work to not do?
11. Was Granny upset?
12. What did she call him?
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answer: 1. in the bushes
2. on the bank of the river
3. The big river
4. A quaker
5. granny
6. yes
7. Learn to swim like a fish
8. fly like a bird
9. saucy
10. boxing his ears.
11. yes
12. Mr. Smarty,

question: CHAPTER XXVIII

SPENNIE'S HOUR OF CLEAR VISION

Mr. McEachern sat in the billiard-room, smoking. He was alone. From where he sat, he could hear distant strains of music. The more rigorous portion of the evening's entertainment, the theatricals, was over, and the nobility and gentry, having done their duty by sitting through the performance, were now enjoying themselves in the ballroom. Everybody was happy. The play had been quite as successful as the usual amateur performance. The prompter had made himself a great favorite from the start, his series of duets with Spennie having been especially admired; and Jimmy, as became an old professional, had played his part with great finish and certainty of touch, though, like the bloodhounds in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on the road, he had had poor support. But the audience bore no malice. No collection of individuals is less vindictive than an audience at amateur theatricals. It was all over now. Charteris had literally gibbered in the presence of eye-witnesses at one point in the second act, when Spennie, by giving a wrong cue, had jerked the play abruptly into act three, where his colleagues, dimly suspecting something wrong, but not knowing what it was, had kept it for two minutes, to the mystification of the audience. But, now Charteris had begun to forget. As he two-stepped down the room, the lines of agony on his face were softened. He even smiled.

As for Spennie, the brilliance of his happy grin dazzled all beholders.

He was still wearing it when he invaded the solitude of Mr. McEachern. In every dance, however greatly he may be enjoying it, there comes a time when a man needs a meditative cigarette apart from the throng. It came to Spennie after the seventh item on the program. The billiard-room struck him as admirably suitable in every way. It was not likely to be used as a sitting-out place, and it was near enough to the ball-room to enable him to hear when the music of item number nine should begin.
1. Whose smile radiated?
2. Whose alone time did he interrupt?
3. Had he stopped smiling by then?
4. At what time in the party did McEachern decide to have isolation time?
5. What vice was he partaking in?
6. What room did he partake in?
7. Did he like it there?
8. Was it far enough away that he couldn't hear the party?
9. What mood was everyone in?
10. How did the show go?
11. Who did people like the most from the beginning?
12. Did he sing with anyone?
13. Who?
14. Who wasn't supported well?
15. Were the people watching the show mean?
16. What it put on by a bunch of pros?
17. What happened to the 2nd part of the show?
18. Because of what?
19. Did this totally throw someone off?
20. Who?
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answer:
1. Spennie's
2. Mr. McEachern
3. no
4. After the theatricals
5. smoking
6. the billiard-room
7. yes
8. no
9. a happy one
10. It had been successful
11. The prompter
12. yes
13. Spennie
14. The prompter
15. no
16. no
17. it got jerked into act three
18. Spennie gave a wrong cue
19. yes
20. Charteris