Q: CHAPTER III. DARBY AND JOAN

My reason haply more To bandy word for word and frown for frown; But now I see our lances are but straws! SHAKESPEARE.

Lancelot saw his brother's doctors the next morning, and communicated to his wife the upshot of the interview when they were driving to their meeting in Mrs. Grinstead's victoria, each adorned with a big bunch of primroses.

"Two doctors! and not Tom," said Gertrude.

"Both Brownlows. Tom knows them well, and wrote. One lives at the East-end, and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia. He began with Clement, but made the case over to the cousin, the fashionable one, when we made the great removal."

"So they consulted?"

"And fairly see the way out of the wood, though not by any means quit of it, poor Tina; but there's a great deal to be thankful for," said Lance, with a long breath.

"Indeed there is!" said the wife, with a squeeze of the hand. "But is there any more to be feared?"

"Everything," Lance answered; "heart chiefly, but the lungs are not safe. He has been whirling his unfortunate machine faster and faster, till no wonder the mainspring has all but broken down. His ideal always was working himself to death, and only Felix could withhold him, so now he has fairly run himself down. No rest from that tremendous parish work, with the bothers about curates, school boards and board schools, and the threatened ritual prosecution, which came to nothing, but worried him almost as much as if it had gone on, besides all the trouble about poor Alda, and the loss of Fulbert took a great deal out of him. When Somers got a living, there was no one to look after him, and he never took warning. So when in that Stinksmeech Mission he breathed pestiferous air and drank pestiferous water, he was finished up. They've got typhus down there-a very good thing too," he added vindictively.

Answer the following questions:
1. what chapter is this?
2. whose doctor did lancelot see?
3. what is his wife's name?
4. how many doctors did he discuss?
5. was tom one?
6. Did Tom know them?
7. does one line in the east-end?
8. were there more things to be feared/
9. what mas the main concern?
10. were his lungs safe?
11. has the machine been going slower?
12. who could withhold him?
13. who did he lose?
14. what was gertrude adorned with?
15. a few of them?
A: 1. CHAPTER III. DARBY AND JOAN
2. his brother's
3. Gertrude.
4. two
5. no
6. yes
7. yes
8. yes
9. his heart
10. no
11. no
12. Felix
13. Felix
14. primroses.
15. no
Q: Harry is a boy with a learning disability. On his fourth birthday, he was given a pug called Millie. Two weeks after the dog's arrival, he was happier and calmer and said his first words, "dog" and "mummy". Just two months later, thieves stole the dog, and now the heartbroken little boy is back to where he started. He has refused to talk since losing his best friend. His mother was worried and gave him another dog, but he just "pushed it away". Mrs Hainsworth, his mother, says, "My son is very sad. He'll go over to her cage and just beat on the bars. There is no word coming out, but you just know he's screaming 'Where is Millie' inside. Millie was really his best friend. They would play together happily for hours. None of his toys has ever held his attention that long. Now he has just completely turned quiet again. "Harry suffers from a condition which affects his ability to speak and move. But the dog's being with him achieved more in days than months of speech therapy and physiotherapy had. Mrs Hainsworth says, "My son was so happy when he saw Millie. Being with Millie changed him, and within two weeks he had said his first words and was working on saying 'dad'. Just last week, his teachers and I were saying how much Millie had helped him. And now this!" Mrs Hainsworth is considering buying another pug in the hope that her son will accept it. Maureen Hennis of the charity, Pets as Therapy, says she has seen many cases of dogs helping people with speech problems. "People may talk to a dog when they wouldn't like to talk to another human," she says. "A dog doesn't care if words come out wrong."

Answer the following questions:
1. What pet did someone have?
2. What kind?
3. What was it called?
4. Who owned it?
5. How old was he?
6. Who was his mom?
7. Did the pet change him?
8. How so?
9. What happened to the pet?
10. How did the kid react?
A: 1. dog
2. pug
3. Millie
4. Harry
5. four
6. Mrs Hainsworth
7. Yes
8. he was happier and calmer
9. thieves stole the dog
10. He refused to talk
Q: CHAPTER XXV

THE TRAIL THROUGH THE JUNGLE

"Sid Merrick is certainly in deadly earnest," was Mr. Rover's comment, after the boys had finished their tale. "He means to get hold of that treasure by hook or by crook, and he will stop at nothing to gain his end."

"We want to go after him and his gang," said Dick. "We ought not to lose a minute doing it."

"Can you walk, Dick?"

"I guess so, although being tied up made me rather stiff."

"I see your wrist is bleeding."

"Yes, and I tried pretty hard to free myself."

"And I tried, too," added Sam. "But I couldn't budge a single knot."

"We could not unknot the knots," added Tom, who was bound to have his joke.

It was now morning, for which all were thankful. The lights were put out, and the whole party partook of some of the provisions on hand.

"I believe Merrick would have left us to starve," said Sam. "He is the greatest rascal I ever knew!"

The Rover boys pointed out the direction Sid Merrick and his party had taken. Bahama Bill said that trail was new to him, and if it led to the treasure cave he did not know it.

"But I'll know the cave as soon as I see it--if it is still there," he added.

"Well, you won't see it if it isn't there," said Dick, grimly. "That earthquake may have changed the whole face of that portion of the isle."

The trail appeared to make a wide sweep to the westward, and led them over ground that was unusually rough. The trailing vines were everywhere and they had to brush away innumerable spider webs as they progressed. Once Songbird came upon some spiders larger than any he had yet seen and two crawled on his shoulder, causing him to yell in fright.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many boys are mentioned?
2. What are their names?
3. Why does Dick have trouble walking?
4. Why?
5. Does he have any injuries?
6. What?
7. How did that happen?
8. Did the other children try, too?
9. Were they successful?
10. Who did this to them?
11. What is he after?
12. Where does he expect to find it?
A:
1. Three
2. Dick, Sam & Tom
3. He is rather stiff
4. He was tied up.
5. Yes
6. His wrist is bleeding
7. When he tried to free himself
8. Yes
9. No
10. Merrick
11. Treasure
12. A cave