CHAPTER XVI. THE PANNIER

He was still pacing there when an hour or so before sunset--some fifteen hours after setting out--they stood before the entrance of a long bottle-necked cove under the shadow of the cliffs of Aquila Point on the southern coast of the Island of Formentera. He was rendered aware of this and roused from his abstraction by the voice of Asad calling to him from the poop and commanding him to make the cove.

Already the wind was failing them, and it became necessary to take to the oars, as must in any case have happened once they were through the coves narrow neck in the becalmed lagoon beyond. So Sakr-el-Bahr, in his turn, lifted up his voice, and in answer to his shout came Vigitello and Larocque.

A blast of Vigitello's whistle brought his own men to heel, and they passed rapidly along the benches ordering the rowers to make ready, whilst Jasper and a half-dozen Muslim sailors set about furling the sails that already were beginning to flap in the shifting and intermittent gusts of the expiring wind. Sakr-el-Bahr gave the word to row, and Vigitello blew a second and longer blast. The oars dipped, the slaves strained and the galeasse ploughed forward, time being kept by a boatswain's mate who squatted on the waist-deck and beat a tomtom rhythmically. Sakr-el-Bahr, standing on the poop-deck, shouted his orders to the steersmen in their niches on either side of the stern, and skilfully the vessel was manoeuvred through the narrow passage into the calm lagoon whose depths were crystal clear. Here before coming to rest, Sakr-el-Bahr followed the invariable corsair practice of going about, so as to be ready to leave his moorings and make for the open again at a moment's notice. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did they stand before?
2. How long was it before sunset?
3. Why did they have to take the oars?
4. What island was it on the south west coast of?
5. Who lifted his voice and was anwsered by Vigitello and larocque?
6. What was the water of the lagoon like?
7. Was it murky or clear?
8. What did Vigitello do to bring his men to heel?
9. What point's cliffs were they near?
10. Who was it that gave word for the sailors to row?
Answer: 1. the entrance of a cove
2. an hour or so
3. Because of the wind.
4. Island of Formentera
5. Sakr-el-Bahr
6. becalmed
7. Clear
8. Blew his whistle
9. Aquila Point
10. Vigitello's own men

Problem: Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that farm workers can have a better life. Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After she became a teacher, Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them. Dolores decided to stop teaching so that she could spend more time helping the farm workers and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for farm workers so they could buy their children the things they needed. Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got good pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless people made new laws to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were made that gave farm workers good pay. Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
1. Was getting higher wages for the workers easy?
2. But did someone make it happen?
3. Who?
4. She thought nothing would change unless what new things were made?
5. Were new laws made?
6. How many years did Dolores invest in helping the workers?
7. Where was she raised?
8. Did she do good in school?
9. Did she enjoy going?
10. Did she finish high school?
11. Where did she go after that?
12. What did she study to be?
13. What were many of her students not getting enough of?
14. What were their clothes like?
15. Did Dolores quit her job?
16. Why?
17. Why did she want the workers to make more money?
18. Do farm workers travel from place to place?
19. So they can do what?
20. Did she write about the farm workers?
Answer: 1. No
2. Yes
3. Dolores Huerta
4. New laws to help the workers.
5. Yes
6. More than 30 years
7. California
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. College
12. A teacher
13. Food
14. Very old
15. Yes
16. So she could spend more time helping the farm workers
17. So they could buy their children the things they needed
18. Yes
19. To pick fruits and vegetables
20. Yes

question: CHAPTER XV

POLE TO POLE

The waiting in London for July to come was daily more unbearable to Shelton, and if it had not been for Ferrand, who still came to breakfast, he would have deserted the Metropolis. On June first the latter presented himself rather later than was his custom, and announced that, through a friend, he had heard of a position as interpreter to an hotel at Folkestone.

"If I had money to face the first necessities," he said, swiftly turning over a collection of smeared papers with his yellow fingers, as if searching for his own identity, "I 'd leave today. This London blackens my spirit."

"Are you certain to get this place," asked Shelton.

"I think so," the young foreigner replied; "I 've got some good enough recommendations."

Shelton could not help a dubious glance at the papers in his hand. A hurt look passed on to Ferrand's curly lips beneath his nascent red moustache.

"You mean that to have false papers is as bad as theft. No, no; I shall never be a thief--I 've had too many opportunities," said he, with pride and bitterness. "That's not in my character. I never do harm to anyone. This"--he touched the papers--"is not delicate, but it does harm to no one. If you have no money you must have papers; they stand between you and starvation. Society, has an excellent eye for the helpless--it never treads on people unless they 're really down." He looked at Shelton.

"You 've made me what I am, amongst you," he seemed to say; "now put up with me!"
1. who was Shelton speaking to?
2. what never treads on someone unless they are really down?
3. what was unbearable to Shelton?
4. what was he waiting for?
5. did he want to stay there?
6. what did he want to desert?
7. what month was it?
8. who was he meeting for breakfast?
9. did he arrive at the time that he normally does?
10. what did he tell Shelton about?
11. what was the position?
12. which hotel?
13. did he think he would get the position?
14. what was he holding in his hands?
15. who saw the papers?
16. how did he look at them?
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answer:
1. Ferrand
2. Society
3. waiting
4. July
5. no
6. the Metropolis
7. June
8. Ferrand
9. no
10. that he had heard of a position
11. interpreter to an hotel
12. at Folkestone
13. yes
14. papers
15. Shelton
16. with a dubious glance