CHAPTER XIII. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in the lower corner near the marsh. Not a great many people knew of its existence. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of course, as they knew everything else about the magic valley. Occasionally they went there to get a drink, and it figured in many of their plays as a fountain of old romance. Anne knew of it and loved it because it somehow reminded her of the beloved Dryad's Bubble at Green Gables. Rosemary West knew of it; it was her fountain of romance, too. Eighteen years ago she had sat behind it one spring twilight and heard young Martin Crawford stammer out a confession of fervent, boyish love. She had whispered her own secret in return, and they had kissed and promised by the wild wood spring. They had never stood together by it again--Martin had sailed on his fatal voyage soon after; but to Rosemary West it was always a sacred spot, hallowed by that immortal hour of youth and love. Whenever she passed near it she turned aside to hold a secret tryst with an old dream--a dream from which the pain had long gone, leaving only its unforgettable sweetness.

The spring was a hidden thing. You might have passed within ten feet of it and never have suspected its existence. Two generations past a huge old pine had fallen almost across it. Nothing was left of the tree but its crumbling trunk out of which the ferns grew thickly, making a green roof and a lacy screen for the water. A maple-tree grew beside it with a curiously gnarled and twisted trunk, creeping along the ground for a little way before shooting up into the air, and so forming a quaint seat; and September had flung a scarf of pale smoke-blue asters around the hollow. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who kissed Rosemary?
2. where did they kiss?
3. where did Martin go after?
4. did he survive it?
5. Did Rosemary ever see him again?
6. Did many people know of the spring?
7. who knew about it?
8. was it a place of romance to them?
9. why did Anne love it?
10. how long ago was it that Martin Crawford professed his love?
11. was the spring out in the open?
12. how close to it would you have to be to know about it?
13. what kind of tree grew by it?
14. what color were the asters?
15. where were they located?
Answer: 1. Martin Crawford
2. by the wild wood spring.
3. on a voyage
4. no
5. no
6. Not a great many
7. The manse and Ingleside children
8. yes
9. because it reminded her of the beloved Dryad's Bubble
10. Eighteen years ago
11. no
12. within ten feet of it
13. A maple-tree
14. smoke-blue
15. around the hollow

Grapes are a type of fruit that grow in clusters of 15 to 300, and can be crimson, black, dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. "White" grapes are actually green in color, and are evolutionarily derived from the purple grape. Mutations in two regulatory genes of white grapes turn off production of anthocyanins, which are responsible for the color of purple grapes. Anthocyanins and other pigment chemicals of the larger family of polyphenols in purple grapes are responsible for the varying shades of purple in red wines. Grapes are typically an ellipsoid shape resembling a prolate spheroid.

The cultivation of the domesticated grape began 6,0008,000 years ago in the Near East. Yeast, one of the earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the innovation of alcoholic drinks such as wine. The earliest archeological evidence for a dominant position of wine-making in human culture dates from 8,000 years ago in Georgia. The oldest winery was found in Armenia, dating to around 4000 BC.[citation needed] By the 9th century AD the city of Shiraz was known to produce some of the finest wines in the Middle East. Thus it has been proposed that Syrah red wine is named after Shiraz, a city in Persia where the grape was used to make Shirazi wine.[citation needed] Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics record the cultivation of purple grapes,[citation needed] and history attests to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans growing purple grapes for both eating and wine production[citation needed]. The growing of grapes would later spread to other regions in Europe, as well as North Africa, and eventually in North America. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is Syrah named after?
2. Where was that?
3. What that a state?
4. What color is it?
5. What color is Syrah wine?
6. What color are white grapes?
7. And what are they derived from?
8. What fruit grows in clusters?
9. Of how many?
10. What is their shape?
Answer: 1. Shiraz
2. Persia
3. unknown
4. unknown
5. red
6. green
7. from the purple grape
8. Grapes
9. 15 to 300
10. ellipsoid

CHAPTER X

MISTRESS AND MEN

Half-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity. She sat down at a table and opened the time-book, pen in her hand, with a canvas money-bag beside her. From this she poured a small heap of coin. Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or, with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money.

"Now before I begin, men," said Bathsheba, "I have two matters to speak of. The first is that the bailiff is dismissed for thieving, and that I have formed a resolution to have no bailiff at all, but to manage everything with my own head and hands."

The men breathed an audible breath of amazement.

"The next matter is, have you heard anything of Fanny?"

"Nothing, ma'am."

"Have you done anything?"

"I met Farmer Boldwood," said Jacob Smallbury, "and I went with him and two of his men, and dragged Newmill Pond, but we found nothing."

"And the new shepherd have been to Buck's Head, by Yalbury, thinking she had gone there, but nobody had seed her," said Laban Tall.

"Hasn't William Smallbury been to Casterbridge?" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was the bailiff dismissed for?
2. So what did Bathsheba do?
3. of what?
4. How would she do everything?
5. Were people amazed about this?
6. What was her other topic of discussion?
7. Who followed Bathsheba?
8. What did Liddy do?
9. Next to who?
10. And what did Bathsheba do when she entered?
11. What did she pour into a pile?
12. Did Liddy seem humble?
13. Who did Bathsheba talk to?
14. What were their names?
15. Who else?
16. Who looked for Fanny?
17. Who else?
Answer:
1. thieving
2. formed a resolution
3. to have no bailiff at all
4. with her own head and hands
5. yes
6. Fanny
7. Liddy
8. began to sew
9. a canvas money-bag
10. She sat down
11. small heap of coin
12. no
13. The men
14. Jacob Smallbury
15. Laban Tall
16. Jacob Smallbury and othes
17. Farmer Boldwood and two of his men