CHAPTER VII

FACE TO FACE

"If you catch Porton, Dave, what will you do--turn him over to the authorities?"

"Yes, Roger."

"Is Bixter much of a place?"

"Oh, no. There are but two stores and two churches and not over thirty or forty houses."

"Then you may have some trouble in finding an officer. Probably the village doesn't boast of anything more than a constable and a Justice of the Peace."

"I am not worrying about that yet, Roger," returned our hero, grimly. "We have got to catch Porton first."

"Oh, I know that. But if he started for Bixter on foot we ought to be able to locate him. A stranger can't go through such a small place without somebody's noticing it."

On and on trotted the horse, past many well-kept farms, and then through a small patch of timber land. Beyond the woods they crossed a frozen creek, and then made a turn to the northward. A short distance beyond they came in sight of the first houses that went to make up the village of Bixter.

"Well, we've not seen anything of him yet," remarked the senator's son, as they slowed up and looked ahead and to both sides of the village street.

"No, and I don't understand it," returned Dave. "From what that carpenter's helper said, I thought we should overtake him before we got to Bixter. Either he must have left this road, or else he must be some walker."

"I don't see where he could have gone if he left the road, Dave. All we passed were lanes leading to the farms, and a path through that wood. It isn't likely he would take to the woods in this cold weather--not unless he was going hunting, and that chap back in Clayton didn't say anything about his carrying a gun." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was trying to catch someone?
2. Who was he trying to get?
3. Where?
4. That a big city?
5. How big?
6. Any commerce?
7. What?
8. Will the police be involved?
9. What animal is mentioned?
10. Was someone riding?
11. Who has a politician for a dad?
Answer: 1. Dave
2. Porton,
3. Bixter
4. no
5. thirty or forty houses."
6. yes
7. two stores
8. possibly
9. horse
10. unknown
11. roger

CHAPTER III.

Noah, who is the first seafaring man we read of, begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Authors, it is true, are not wanting who affirm that the patriarch had a number of other children. Thus Berosus makes him father of the gigantic Titans; Methodius gives him a son called Jonithus, or Jonicus (who was the first inventor of Johnny cakes); and others have mentioned a son, named Thuiscon, from whom descended the Teutons or Teutonic, or, in other words, the Dutch nation.

I regret exceedingly that the nature of my plan will not permit me to gratify the laudable curiosity of my readers, by investigating minutely the history of the great Noah. Indeed, such an undertaking would be attended with more trouble than many people would imagine; for the good old patriarch seems to have been a great traveler in his day, and to have passed under a different name in every country that he visited. The Chaldeans, for instance, give us his story, merely altering his name into Xisuthrus--a trivial alteration, which to an historian skilled in etymologies will appear wholly unimportant. It appears, likewise, that he had exchanged his tarpaulin and quadrant among the Chaldeans for the gorgeous insignia of royalty, and appears as a monarch in their annals. The Egyptians celebrate him under the name of Osiris; the Indians as Menu; the Greek and Roman writers confound him with Ogyges; and the Theban with Deucalion and Saturn. But the Chinese, who deservedly rank among the most extensive and authentic historians, inasmuch as they have known the world much longer than any one else, declare that Noah was no other than Fohi; and what gives this assertion some air of credibility is that it is a fact, admitted by the most enlightened _literati_, that Noah traveled into China, at the time of the building of the Tower of Babel (probably to improve himself in the study of languages), and the learned Dr. Shuckford gives us the additional information that the ark rested on a mountain on the frontiers of China. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was first read of?
2. What was he?
3. did he have siblings?
4. did he have children?
5. sons or daughters?
6. how many
7. what was their names?
8. who was the father of titans?
9. who gave him one son?
10. where did thusicon come from?
11. who invented johnny cakes?
12. was researching noah easy?
13. did noah travel?
14. what was his name altered to by chaldeans?
15. what was his egyptian name?
16. his greek name?
17. what was his chinese given name?
18. did he travel to china?
19. what was being built?
20. where was the ark?
Answer: 1. Noah,
2. a seafaring man
3. no
4. yes
5. sons,
6. three
7. Shem, Ham, and Japhet
8. Berosus
9. Methodius
10. the Teutons or Teutonic
11. Jonicus
12. no
13. yes
14. Xisuthrus
15. Osiris
16. Ogyges
17. Fohi
18. yes
19. the Tower of Babel
20. on a mountain on the frontiers of China.

On a nice and sunny day, Bob and Sally walked to the beach. When they got there, the first thing they wanted to do was to look for buried treasure. To find the treasure they had brought two shovels and two buckets. They both started digging holes in the sand with their shovels. After looking very hard for treasure for an hour, they didn't find anything. This made Bob and Sally very sad. They gave up and went to play in the water. While they were playing in the water, Sally found a bottle with a little paper inside. Sally opened the bottle and found a treasure map. Sally showed the map to Bob and they started to look for the treasure. After walking every step that the map said, they started digging with their shovels. After digging a really a big hole, they found a box. They were very happy that they found it and wanted to see what was inside. Bob slowly opened the box and there was a very big pearl. Next, they ran to a special store to ask about the pearl. The worker in the store told Bob and Sally that the pearl could make them rich. Bob and Sally looked at each other and decided not to sell it. They took the pearl home and saved it in a special box, so they could remember their day at the beach. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did Bob and Sandy do with the pearl?
2. in what?
3. why?
4. where were they before going home?
5. who was there?
6. did they interact with him?
7. how?
8. where did they discover it?
9. how did they discover it?
10. did they create the hole?
11. how did they know to?
12. where did they find that?
13. what was the weather like?
14. where did they go?
15. what did they do there?
16. did they do anything before that?
17. what did they bring?
18. did they use their buckets to dig?
Answer:
1. took it home to save
2. in a special box
3. so they could remember their day at the beach
4. a special store
5. a worker
6. yes
7. he said the pearl could make them rich
8. in a box
9. digging a really a big hole,
10. yes
11. it was on a map
12. in a bottle
13. nice and sunny
14. the beach
15. look for buried treasure
16. started digging holes
17. two shovels and two buckets
18. no