Question:
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Our village carpenter ,John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for his job. My wife said to me quietly, "That's his ninth cup of tea today." But she said in a loud voice, "It's a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?" "I'll decide about that when I see the bill." I said. John laughed and gave me his bill. It said: One dining table 10thNovember,2014 Cost of wood $17.00 Paint $1.50 Work,8 hour( $1.00 an hour) $ 8.00 Total $ 36.50 When I was looking at the bill,John said,"It's been a fine day,hasn't it? Quite sunny." "Yes," I said."I'm glad it's only the 10thof November." "Me too." said John, "You wait--it'll be a lot colder by the end of the month." "Yes, colder--and more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" John looked hard at me for half a minute. I gave his bill back to him. "If it isn't too much trouble, John," I said,"please add it up again. You can forget the date..." I paid him $26.50 and he was happy to get it.
1. Who was the carpenter?
2. What did he drink to excess?
3. What was he there to make?
4. Did it have to fit a certain dimension?
5. Did it have to fit next to the bed?
6. Where did it have to fit between?
7. How many line items did he charge?
8. What did he think it added up to?
9. Was that the difference between that and the real total?
10. Who called the woodwork beautiful?
11. Did they all live in the same bustling city?
12. What day was the woodwork completed on?
13. When would the woodwork be more expensive according to the man's joke?
14. Did they wind up paying the wrong amount?
15. Was the woodworker unhappy with that?
16. How many drinks had he had according to the woman?
17. Was it a rainy day?

Numbered answers:
1. John Hill
2. tea
3. a table
4. yes
5. no
6. the space between the two windows
7. Three
8. $36.50
9. $10
10. the wife
11. unknown
12. November 10, 2014
13. November 30th
14. no
15. no
16. Nine
17. no

Question:
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Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.

Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.

There are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named "de Waalstraat" got its name. A generally accepted version is that the name of the street was derived from a wall (actually a wooden palisade) on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement, built to protect against Native Americans, pirates, and the British. A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street was named after "Walloons" the Dutch name for a "Walloon" is "Waal". Among the first settlers that embarked on the ship "Nieu Nederlandt" in 1624 were 30 Walloon families. While the Dutch word "wal" can be translated as "rampart", it only appeared on maps as "de Walstraat" on English maps of New Amsterdam. However, even some English maps show the name as Waal Straat, and not as Wal Straat.
1. What state is Wall Street in?
2. What is it's Dutch name?
3. How many blocks is the street?
4. is New York home to NASDAQ?
5. is it also home to The New York stock exchange?
6. What city is the leading financial center of the world?
7. How many Walloon families were on the ship?
8. What is the dutch name for a Walloon?
9. What was the ship named?
10. What do some maps show the name as?

Numbered answers:
1. It is in New York
2. It's dutch name is "de Waalstraat"
3. Eight blocks
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. The leading financial center of the world is New York City
7. 30
8. The dutch name is "Waal"
9. The ship's name is Nieu Nederlandt
10. it shows the name "de Walstraat" on English maps of New Amsterdam

Question:
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CHAPTER XXIII

DAVE AND THE FAWN

"Sam, do you think he will live?"

Over and over Henry asked the question as he and the old frontiersman worked over the inanimate form they had brought to shore from the waters of the river.

"Hope so, Henry, but I can't tell yet," was Barringford's answer. "We'll do all we can, and trust the rest to God."

Both worked with a will, doing whatever they thought was best. Barringford held Dave up by the ankles and allowed much of the water to run from the unfortunate's mouth, and then they rolled the youth and worked his arms and rubbed him.

At first it looked as if all their efforts would be in vain, and tears gathered in Henry's eyes. But then they saw Dave give a faint shudder, followed by a tiny gasp.

"He's comin' around!" shouted Barringford, in a strangely unnatural voice. "Praise Heaven for it!"

But there was still much to do before Dave could breath with any kind of regularity, and they continued to rub him and slap him, while Barringford forced him to gulp down a small quantity of stimulants brought along in case of emergency. Then a fire was started up, and later on Henry brought over the youth's clothes, for to take Dave across the stream was out of the question.

For over an hour Dave felt so weak that neither of the others attempted to question him. Both helped him into his clothes, and gave him something hot to drink, and made him comfortable on a couch of twigs and leaves.
1. Who was held upside down?
2. Who held him that way?
3. who is with Barringford?
4. where did they find Dave?
5. what question did Henry keep repeating?
6. did he?
7. what else did they do besides the upside down hold to bring him around?
8. who yelled that he was coming to?
9. who did he give credit for this?
10. could Dave immediately speak?
11. was his breathing immediately ok?
12. what did they keep doing to him?
13. what was he forced to drink?
14. why did they have those?
15. what did they do to provide warmth?
16. what did Henry bring Dave after a while?
17. how long did they wait to start asking Dave things?
18. how did he feel during this time?
19. did he dress himself?
20. what did they make for him to lie down on?
Numbered answers:
1. Dave
2. Barringford
3. Henry
4. the waters of the river
5. "do you think he will live?"
6. yes
7. worked his arms and rubbed him
8. Barringford
9. Heaven
10. no
11. no
12. rub and slap him
13. stimulants
14. in case of emergency
15. started a fire
16. his clothes
17. over an hour
18. weak
19. no
20. a couch