Q: CHAPTER XIII

Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy.

Simon Nishikanta sneered openly at what he considered the captain's inefficient navigation, and continued to paint water-colours when he was serene, and to shoot at whales, sea-birds, and all things hurtable when he was downhearted and sea-sore with disappointment at not sighting the Lion's Head peak of the Ancient Mariner's treasure island.

"I'll show I ain't a pincher," Nishikanta announced one day, after having broiled at the mast-head for five hours of sea-searching. "Captain Doane, how much could we have bought extra chronometers for in San Francisco--good second-hand ones, I mean?"

"Say a hundred dollars," the captain answered.

"Very well. And this ain't a piker's proposition. The cost of such a chronometer would have been divided between the three of us. I stand for its total cost. You just tell the sailors that I, Simon Nishikanta, will pay one hundred dollars gold money for the first one that sights land on Mr. Greenleaf's latitude and longitude."

But the sailors who swarmed the mast-heads were doomed to disappointment, in that for only two days did they have opportunity to stare the ocean surface for the reward. Nor was this due entirely to Dag Daughtry, despite the fact that his own intention and act would have been sufficient to spoil their chance for longer staring.

1. Doane
2. Simon
3. Nishikanta
4. yes
5. whales
6. sea-birds
7. all things hurtable
8. no
9. downhearted
10. five hours
11. have been divided
12. hundred
13. no
14. gold

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the captain?
2. Who didn't like his navigation?
3. what's his last name?
4. Is he a painter?
5. What did he shoot at?
6. and?
7. and?
8. had he seen the Lion's Head ?
9. How did he feel?
10. How long had he been at the mast head?
11. Was he wondering about the price o f something?
12. How much did the captain say they'd be?
13. Were they new chronometers he was asking about?
14. What kind of money was it?

Q: CHAPTER VIII

AN INFORMAL COURT

One morning, soon after Fuller and his daughter had gone home, Dick stood at a table in the testing house behind the mixing sheds. The small, galvanized iron building shook with the throb of engines and rattle of machinery, and now and then a shower of cinders pattered upon the roof; for the big mill that ground up the concrete was working across the road. The lattice shutters were closed, for the sake of privacy, and kept out the glare, though they could not keep out the heat, which soaked through the thin, iron walls, and Dick's face was wet with perspiration as he arranged a number of small concrete blocks. Some of these were broken, and some partly crushed. Delicate scales and glass measures occupied a neighboring shelf, and a big steel apparatus that looked rather like a lever weighing machine stood in the shadow.

Where the draught that came through the lattices flowed across the room, Bethune lounged in a canvas chair, and another man, with a quiet, sunburned face, sat behind him. This was Stuyvesant, whose authority was only second to Fuller's.

"Brandon seems to have taken a good deal of trouble, but this kind of investigation needs the strictest accuracy, and we haven't the best of testing apparatus," Bethune remarked. "I expect he'll allow that the results he has got may be to some extent misleading, and I doubt if it's worth while to go on with the matter. Are you sure you have made no mistakes, Dick?"

1. Two
2. Fuller
3. his daughter
4. Dick
5. the mixing sheds
6. no
7. galvanized iron
8. cinders
9. closed
10. for the sake of privacy
11. Bethune
12. a canvas chair
13. yes
14. behind him.
15. Stuyvesant,

Numbered questions:
1. How many went home at first?
2. Who was one of them?
3. And the other?
4. Who was in the testing house?
5. What was it behindd?
6. Was it a big building?
7. What was it made out of?
8. What landed on the roof sometimes?
9. Where the blinds open or closed?
10. Why?
11. Who was relaxing in a seat?
12. What type was were she was sitting?
13. Was there anyone else there?
14. Where in relation to Bethune?
15. Who was it?

Q: Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs. They loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses. One evening, Brownie's family noticed that their dog hadn't returned home. They went looking for him, but with no success. Brownie didn't show up the next day, and by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie's house alone. He barked loudly. But busy with their own lives, Brownie's family just ignored their neighbor's nervous little dog. Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take "no" for an answer. He followed Ted, Brownie's owner, everywhere he went. He barked, then rushed towards a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, " Follow me!" Finally, Ted followed the dog across the empty lot. The dog led the man to a tree a half-mile from the house. There Ted found Brownie alive. One of his legs was crushed in a trap. Ted wished he had taken Spotty's earlier appeals seriously. Then Ted noticed something amazing. In a circle around the injured dog, he saw a lot of dog food. They were the remains of lots of meals. Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day. He had stayed with Brownie to protect him, snuggling with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling him to .

1. Brownie and Spotty
2. dogs
3. they're neighbors
4. between their houses
5. Brownie
6. at least a week
7. his family
8. a half-mile from home
9. he was caught in a trap
10. The dog
11. barking
12. ignored him
13. followed Ted everywhere
14. barked and rushed back and forth to a lot
15. yes
16. followed him
17. yes
18. yes
19. Spotty
20. meals

Numbered questions:
1. Who caused the path in the grass?
2. Who are they?
3. How do they know each other?
4. Where did they make the path?
5. Who was missing?
6. How long was he gone?
7. Who looked for him?
8. Where was he?
9. What had happened to him?
10. Who showed Ted where he was?
11. How did Spotty try to tell them?
12. What did the family do?
13. How did he get them to listen?
14. What else?
15. Did Ted listen?
16. What did he do?
17. Was Brownie living?
18. was he hurt?
19. Who had been watching Brownie?
20. What did Scotty take him?