Question: CHAPTER XXIII.

News of Importance

"Don't be alarmed; he is not going to shoot," cried Paul.

"Don't ye make too shure o' thet," ejaculated the cowboy. "Wot's he puttin' his hand into his pocket fer?"

"He has something there I fancy he wishes to conceal," went on Paul. "Empty the pocket, please."

"Let me go! This is highway robbery!" stormed Captain Grady.

He struggled fiercely to regain his feet. But Blowfen was the stronger of the pair and he easily held the rascal down with one hand, while with the other he brought several letters from his inside pocket.

Paul eagerly snatched the letters, in spite of the captain's protest. He glanced at them, with Chet looking over his shoulder.

"Well, what do you make out?" asked Caleb Dottery. He didn't quite like the way matters were turning.

"I think we will be safe in making Captain Grady a prisoner," replied Paul slowly.

"Yes, make him a prisoner by all means," put in Chet. "He is a villain if ever there was one. If we can't prove it I think my Uncle Barnaby can."

At the reference to Barnaby Winthrop Captain Grady grew pale. It was evident that his sins were at last finding him out.

It did not take Jack Blowfen long to act upon Paul's suggestion. He disarmed the captain and made him march into the house, where he bound the fellow in very much the same manner as Dottery had bound Jeff Jones.

While he was doing so Paul showed the letters taken from the prisoner to Caleb Dottery. Chet, while a second reading was going on, commenced to ransack the house. 1. Does Grady have a weapon for the first portion of story?
2. Does he have a weapon at the end of the story?
3. Is the Captain free at the end?
4. What does the captain have in his pocket?
5. Does the Captain want to share the letters?
6. Who forces the Captain to reveal the letters?
7. Do the letters show the others that the Captain is good?
8. What is done with the Captain after the letters are read?
9. Does the captain want Barnaby Winthrop to be involved?
10. Who is Barnaby Winthrop related to? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. no
2. no, he was disarmed
3. no
4. letters
5. no
6. Blowfen
7. Yno
8. he was bound
9. no
10. Chet

Question: I was really scared walking into school today. It was the first day of sixth grade and I was excited to be leaving elementary school, but I ended up going to a different middle school than all my friends since I moved across town last year. My name is Matt, but I'm going to try and not let anyone else know that as I'd rather sit in the back and keep to myself. I didn't want to ride the bus, so my mom said she would drive me there for today. Thankfully I found my classroom, but I walked in and saw nobody I knew, as I thought. I took a seat at an empty table as the teacher, Mrs. Frank took roll call. She seemed nice, and I'm happy we weren't told to sit in alphabetical order or by boys to boys and girls to girls, as I was free to sit by myself for now. Mrs. Frank called out Jimmy, Sally, Linda, Jason, and then finally got to my name in which I raised my hand quickly. As soon as she was done, a few of the kids who arrived late came to sit by me and said their names were Martin and Mark.

Martin said he liked how our names all sounded the same, and Mark seconded that as we started talking before class began. When it was time to eat, we all said we would sit with one another in the lunch room, and also when it came to recess and playing together. It was nice to have some friends after being so nervous earlier, and see that everything does work out in the end. Hopefully soon we can all play together outside of class, but as far as today, it was a great start! 1. What is my name? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Matt

Question: Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts all the children she can. Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today , she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage. Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food. If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. "I know what it is to be poor and hungry." As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless. Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old, Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father's death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale. "I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved," Pinky says. 1. How old is Pinky?
2. What does she collect?
3. Why?
4. When did she adopt her first kid?
5. How did her parents feel about it?
6. What did she do to pay for it?
7. Where was the baby from?
8. What happened to her parents?
9. What is her name?
10. What is her current age?
11. Why did she adopt her second child?
12. How old is she now?
13. Where is she employed?
14. How many kids has she adopted?
15. What kind of house does she have?
16. Where is it?
17. Does she have any other kids?
18. Where did she get them?
19. How does Pinky feel about kids? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. 30
2. children
3. her first baby was an orphan
4. when she was 14
5. they did not mind
6. she started working full time
7. Nepal
8. they passed away
9. Aarita Rai
10. 20
11. her mother was unable to look after her
12. 19
13. in a government office
14. 12
15. a brown mud-washed house
16. Sikkim
17. 2 sons
18. from her marriage
19. she likes children