Q: Chapter Eleven: The City of Al-Je-Bal

"I pray you have done," said Godwin, "it is but a scratch from the beast's claws. I am ashamed that you should put your hair to such vile uses. Give me a little water."

He asked it of Wulf, but Masouda rose without a word and fetched the water, in which she mingled wine. Godwin drank of it and his faintness left him, so that he was able to stand up and move his arms and legs.

"Why," he said, "it is nothing; I was only shaken. That lioness did not hurt me at all."

"But you hurt the lioness," said Wulf, with a laugh. "By St. Chad a good thrust!" and he pointed to the long sword driven up to the hilt in the brute's breast. "Why, I swear I could not have made a better myself."

"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak."

So Wulf set his foot upon the breast of the lion and tugged and tugged until at length he loosened the sword, saying as he strained at it:

"Oh! what an Essex hog am I, who slept through it all, never waking until Masouda seized me by the hair, and I opened my eyes to see you upon the ground with this yellow beast crouched on the top of you like a hen on a nest egg. I thought that it was alive and smote it with my sword, which, had I been fully awake, I doubt if I should have found the courage to do. Look," and he pushed the lioness's head with his foot, whereon it twisted round in such a fashion that they perceived for the first time that it only hung to the shoulders by a thread of skin.

1. wulf
2. long sword
3. lioness
4. Essex hog
5. Masouda
6. bad
7. unknown
8. Godwin
9. yes
10. no
11. wulf
12. wine
13. yes
14. yes
15. yes
16. brothers
17. no
18. the lion shoved into the sword

Numbered questions:
1. Who pulled a weapon out of something?
2. What kind of weapon?
3. What was it stuck in?
4. Did he call himself a name as he pulled?
5. Who grabbed his hair?
6. What state was the animals neck?
7. What connected the neck to the body?
8. Who had fought the animal?
9. Was he injured?
10. Badly?
11. Who got some H2O?
12. What was it combined with?
13. Did it help?
14. Was he casual about the whole thing?
15. Are the two men related?
16. In what way?
17. Did Godwin take credit for the killing blow?
18. What did he say happened?

CHAPTER VII.

Gie ower your house, lady, he said,-- Gie ower your house to me. Edom of Gordon.

Morton had finished the revisal and the making out of a fair copy of the paper on which he and Poundtext had agreed to rest as a full statement of the grievances of their party, and the conditions on which the greater part of the insurgents would be contented to lay down their arms; and he was about to betake himself to repose, when there was a knocking at the door of his apartment.

"Enter," said Morton; and the round bullethead of Cuddie Headrigg was thrust into the room. "Come in," said Morton, "and tell me what you want. Is there any alarm?"

"Na, stir; but I hae brought ane to speak wi' you."

"Who is that, Cuddie?" enquired Morton.

"Ane o' your auld acquaintance," said Cuddie; and, opening the door more fully, he half led, half dragged in a woman, whose face was muffled in her plaid.--"Come, come, ye needna be sae bashfu' before auld acquaintance, Jenny," said Cuddie, pulling down the veil, and discovering to his master the well-remembered countenance of Jenny Dennison. "Tell his honour, now--there's a braw lass--tell him what ye were wanting to say to Lord Evandale, mistress."

"What was I wanting to say," answered Jenny, "to his honour himsell the other morning, when I visited him in captivity, ye muckle hash?--D'ye think that folk dinna want to see their friends in adversity, ye dour crowdy-eater?"

This reply was made with Jenny's usual volubility; but her voice quivered, her cheek was thin and pale, the tears stood in her eyes, her hand trembled, her manner was fluttered, and her whole presence bore marks of recent suffering and privation, as well as nervous and hysterical agitation. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who rapped on the door?
2. Who was inside?
3. Had he been working on something?
4. Did it involve a document?
5. What did he do with it?
6. Anything else?
7. What did he do with it?
8. Did someone help him draw up the document?
9. Who?
10. What was stated in the paper?
Answer:
1. Cuddie Headrigg
2. Morton
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. revised it
6. Yes
7. made a copy of the paper
8. Yes
9. Poundtext
10. a full statement of the grievances of their party