input: CHAPTER III.

ON A LUMBER RAFT.

"You think you saw Arnold Baxter?" demanded Tom.

"Yes, I saw Arnold Baxter, just as plain as day."

"Sam, you must be--"

"No, I am not dreaming. It was Arnold Baxter, true enough. As soon as he saw I had spotted him he drew out of sight."

"But we thought he was dead--buried under that landslide out in Colorado."

"We didn't find his body, and he isn't dead. Why, I would never make a mistake in that rascal's face, never," and Sam shook his head to emphasize his words.

"Was Dan with him?"

"I didn't see the son."

"If it was really Arnold Baxter we ought to let the authorities know at once, so that they can arrest him for getting out of prison on that bogus pardon."

"Yes, and we ought to let father know, too, for you may be sure Baxter will do all he can to get square with us for keeping the Eclipse mining claim out of his grasp."

"He can't do anything about that claim now. Our claim is established by law, and he is nothing but an escaped jailbird. But I agree he may give us lots of trouble in other directions. I presume he would like to see us all hung for the way we got ahead of him and his tools."

"If the steamer wasn't so far off we might hail her," continued Sam, but this was now out of the question.

Both lads were very much disturbed, and with good reason. Arnold Baxter had been an enemy to Mr. Rover for years, and this meant a good deal when the desperate character of the man was taken into consideration. He was a well-educated fellow, but cruel and unprincipled to the last degree, and one who would hesitate at nothing in order to accomplish his purpose. 1. Who was Rover's enemy?
2. Who was believed to be dead?
3. How did he die?
4. How did they believe he died?
5. Where?
6. Who was his child?
7. Was he seen?
8. What did he escape from?
9. What did they keep from him?
10. Who was disturbed?
11. Was this reasonable?
12. Was he smart?
13. Who saw the man presumed dead?
14. Was it a dream?
15. Who was not dreaming?
16. What was bogus?
17. Who should be notified right away?
18. And which relative?
19. What type of claim was it?
20. Why was Sam's head shook? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Arnold Baxter
2. Arnold Baxter
3. He didn't
4. Buried under a landslide
5. In Colorado
6. Dan
7. No
8. Prison
9. The Eclipse mining claim
10. Both lads.
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Sam
14. unknown
15. Sam claimed he was not dreaming.
16. The pardon that got Arnold out of jail.
17. The authorities
18. Their father
19. Eclipse mining claim
20. To emphasize his words.

input: CHAPTER XL

CAPTAIN ICHABOD PUTS THE CASE

In the river at Bridgetown lay the good brig King and Queen, just arrived from Jamaica. On her deck was an impatient young gentleman, leaning over the rail and watching the approach of a boat, with two men rowing and a passenger in the stern.

This impatient young man was Dickory Charter, that morning arrived at Bridgetown and not yet having been on shore. He came for the purpose of settling some business affairs, partly on account of Miss Kate Bonnet and partly for his mother.

As the boat came nearer, Dickory recognised one of the men who were rowing and hailed him.

"Heigho! Tom Hilyer," he cried, "I am right glad to see you on this river again. I want a boat to go to my mother's house; know you of one at liberty?"

The man ceased rowing for a moment and then addressed the passenger in the stern, who, having heard what he had to say, nodded briefly.

"Well, well, Dick Charter!" cried out the man, "and have you come back as governor of the colony? You look fine enough, anyway. But if you want a boat to go to your mother's old home, you can have a seat in this one; we're going there, and our passenger does not object."

"Pull up here," cried Dickory, and in a moment he had dropped into the bow of the boat, which then proceeded on its way.

The man in the stern was fairly young, handsome, sunburned, and well dressed in a suit of black. When Dickory thanked him for allowing him to share his boat the passenger in the stern nodded his head with a jerk and an air which indicated that he took the incident as a matter of course, not to be further mentioned or considered. 1. Who arrived from Jamaica?
2. Was there someone on the deck?
3. Was he young?
4. and impatient too?
5. What was his name?
6. What did he come for?
7. on account of who?
8. and who else?
9. did he recognize someone?
10. who was it?
11. name him?
12. Did Dickory ask Tom anything?
13. What
14. Did Tom offer Dick to go with him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. the King
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes
5. Dickory Charter
6. settling some business affairs
7. Miss Kate Bonnet
8. his mother.
9. yes
10. one of the men who were rowing
11. Tom Hilyer
12. yes
13. if he knew of a boat to get to his mother's house
14. yes

input: Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward. 1. What was this based on?
2. What are they converted to?
3. How many are there?
4. How many print?
5. What is a surprising printable character?
6. What is classified as an invisible picture?
7. What is its number?
8. What are the first two groups saved for?
9. What comes before them?
10. Why? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. the English alphabet
2. seven-bit integers
3. 128
4. 95
5. unknown
6. the space
7. 223
8. control characters
9. space
10. to make sorting easier,