Q: There was once an animal named Eddy. He was not a dog, a bunny or a bear but a little kitten. Unlike the black, white and orange cats in his neighborhood, Eddy was a gray cat. He loved to go outside and run around the streets and the city. He liked to listen to the birds chirp and watch the children draw with chalk. He was a very smart and friendly kitten.

Eddy was good at many things. He was good at hopping, running and playing. The thing Eddy was best at was climbing! His claws gripped trees hard which made it easy for him to pull himself up. Anyone who saw Eddy climb might think he was part monkey!

Eddy also loved his family. When he wasn't outside he liked to sit with people when they would read, play with toys and eat. Eddy was a very lazy cat! He loved to sleep most of the day, at least 12 hours! His family could always count on him to be sleepy.

1. kitten
2. gray
3. black, white and orange
4. yes
5. run around the streets
6. listen to them chirp
7. watch the children draw
8. chalk
9. many things
10. hopping, running and playing
11. climbing
12. trees
13. that he was part monkey
14. sleeping
15. 12 hours
16. he was lazy
17. yes
18. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What kind of animal was Eddy?
2. what color was he?
3. what color were the other kitties?
4. Did he like to go outdoors?
5. what did he do while he was out?
6. what did he like to do with the birds?
7. what did he like to do with the kids?
8. what did they draw with?
9. What was he good at?
10. Like what?
11. what was he the best at?
12. what did he like to climb up?
13. what might a person who saw him climb think?
14. What would he spend his days doing if he didn't go out doors?
15. how long would he do it?
16. Why would he do this so much?
17. Did he have a family?
18. Did he enjoy being with them?

Q: CHAPTER III

They had dinner in the open-air, tree-walled dining-room, and Saxon noted that it was Billy who paid the reckoning for the four. They knew many of the young men and women at the other tables, and greetings and fun flew back and forth. Bert was very possessive with Mary, almost roughly so, resting his hand on hers, catching and holding it, and, once, forcibly slipping off her two rings and refusing to return them for a long while. At times, when he put his arm around her waist, Mary promptly disengaged it; and at other times, with elaborate obliviousness that deceived no one, she allowed it to remain.

And Saxon, talking little but studying Billy Roberts very intently, was satisfied that there would be an utter difference in the way he would do such things... if ever he would do them. Anyway, he'd never paw a girl as Bert and lots of the other fellows did. She measured the breadth of Billy's heavy shoulders.

"Why do they call you 'Big' Bill?" she asked. "You're not so very tall."

"Nope," he agreed. "I'm only five feet eight an' three-quarters. I guess it must be my weight."

"He fights at a hundred an' eighty," Bert interjected.

"Oh, out it," Billy said quickly, a cloud-rift of displeasure showing in his eyes. "I ain't a fighter. I ain't fought in six months. I've quit it. It don't pay."

"Yon got two hundred the night you put the Frisco Slasher to the bad," Bert urged proudly.

1. "Reckoning"
2. Roberts
3. Rings.
4. Two.
5. No.
6. 'Big' Bill
7. False.
8. One hundred and eighty
9. True.
10. No.
11. It doesn't pay.
12. False.
13. Four
14. Mary.
15. He put his arm around it.
16. Yes.
17. Unknown.
18. False.
19. Paw a girl.
20. 200

Numbered questions:
1. What synonym for "bill" is used to describe what Billy paid?
2. What is Billy's surname?
3. What did Bert take off Mary's hand?
4. How many?
5. Did he give them back promptly?
6. What is Billy's nickname?
7. True or False: The nickname was given because he is tall.
8. How much does Bert say the fighter weighs?
9. True or False: Billy beat the Slasher in a fight.
10. Does Billy still fight?
11. Why not?
12. True or False: The group ate indoors.
13. How many diners were there?
14. Who is Bert controlling of?
15. What did he do with her waist?
16. Did the group know anyone else in the restaurant?
17. How many others, exactly?
18. True or False: Saxon spoke a lot.
19. What does Saxon think he wouldn't do as others did?
20. How much did Billy win for beating the Frisco Slasher?

Q: Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12thcentury. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.

Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.

In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called "Meet Mister Callaghan."

1. guitar

Numbered questions:
1. What instrument is the most popular?