Q: CHAPTER V

THE TOMATO FINCA

Three weeks had passed since his interview with Austin before Jefferson was ready to sail, and he spent most of the time in strenuous activity. He had cabled to England for a big centrifugal pump and a second-hand locomotive-type boiler, while, when they arrived, Macallister said that five hundred pounds would not tempt him to raise full steam on the latter. He also purchased a broken-down launch, and, though she was cheap, the cost of her and the pump, with other necessaries, made a considerable hole in his remaining 2,000. It was for this reason he undertook to make the needful repairs himself, with the help of a steamer's donkey-man who had somehow got left behind, while Austin and Macallister spent most of the week during which the _Estremedura_ lay at Las Palmas in the workshop he had extemporised. He appeared to know a little about machinery, and could, at least, handle hack-saw and file in a fashion which moved Macallister to approbation, while Austin noticed that the latter's sardonic smile became less frequent as he and the American worked together.

Jefferson was grimly in earnest, and it was evident that his thoroughness, which overlooked nothing, compelled the engineer's admiration. It also occurred to Austin that, while there are many ways in which a lover may prove his devotion, few other men would probably have cared for the one Jefferson had undertaken. He was not a very knightly figure when he emerged, smeared with rust and scale, from the second-hand boiler, or crawled about the launch's engines with blackened face and hands; but Austin, who remembered it was for Muriel Gascoyne he had staked all his little capital in that desperate venture, forebore to smile. He knew rather better than Jefferson did that it was a very forlorn hope indeed the latter was venturing on. One cannot heave a stranded steamer off without strenuous physical exertion, and the white man who attempts the latter in a good many parts of Western Africa incontinently dies.

1. CHAPTER V
2. THE TOMATO FINCA
3. In strenuous activity.
4. 2,000.
5. To sail
6. Centrifugal pump
7. England
8. Locomotive-type boiler
9. No
10. No
11. A launch
12. Yes
13. No
14. He did them
15. A steamer's donkey-man

Numbered questions:
1. What chapter are we discussing?
2. What is it called?
3. How has Jefferson spent the last three weeks?
4. How much money did he have remaining?
5. What was he getting ready to do?
6. What was one thing he bought?
7. Where did he get it?
8. What else did he buy?
9. Was it new?
10. Was it any good?
11. What else did he buy?
12. Did he have enough money for it all?
13. Was he able to pay for the repairs?
14. How did he get the repairs done?
15. Who helped him?

Q: CHAPTER XXVIII

The owlet loves the gloom of night, The lark salutes the day, The timid dove will coo at hand-- But falcons soar away. --_Song in Duo_.

In a country settled, like these states, by a people who fled their native land and much-loved firesides, victims of consciences and religious zeal, none of the decencies and solemnities of a Christian death are dispensed with, when circumstances will admit of their exercise. The good woman of the house was a strict adherent to the forms of the church to which she belonged; and having herself been awakened to a sense of her depravity, by the ministry of the divine who harangued the people of the adjoining parish, she thought it was from his exhortations only that salvation could be meted out to the short-lived hopes of Henry Wharton. Not that the kind-hearted matron was so ignorant of the doctrines of the religion which she professed, as to depend, theoretically, on mortal aid for protection; but she had, to use her own phrase, "sat so long under the preaching of good Mr.----," that she had unconsciously imbibed a practical reliance on his assistance, for that which her faith should have taught her could come from the Deity alone. With her, the consideration of death was at all times awful, and the instant that the sentence of the prisoner was promulgated, she dispatched Caesar, mounted on one of her husband's best horses, in quest of her clerical monitor. This step had been taken without consulting either Henry or his friends; and it was only when the services of Caesar were required on some domestic emergency, that she explained the nature of his absence. The youth heard her, at first, with an unconquerable reluctance to admit of such a spiritual guide; but as our view of the things of this life becomes less vivid, our prejudices and habits cease to retain their influence; and a civil bow of thanks was finally given, in requital for the considerate care of the well-meaning woman.

1. the gloom of night
2. the day
3. coo at hand
4. Yes
5. soar away
6. a strict adherent to the forms of the church
7. Yes
8. She was awakened to a sense of her depravity
9. by the ministry of the divine
10. harangued the people of the adjoining parish
11. That it was from his exhortations only that salvation could be meted out
12. The short-lived hopes of Henry Wharton.
13. No
14. kind-hearted
15. awful
16. Yes
17. she dispatched Caesar
18. her clerical monitor.
19. one of her husband's horses
20. No

Numbered questions:
1. What does the owlet love?
2. What does the lark salute?
3. What will the dove do?
4. Is the dove shy?
5. What does the falcon do?
6. What was the woman of the house?
7. Did she belong to the church?
8. What happened to her?
9. By who?
10. Who did what?
11. What did she think?
12. To what?
13. Was she cold hearted?
14. What was she?
15. What was the thought of death to her?
16. All the time?
17. What happened when the prisoner's sentence was made known?
18. In search of what?
19. What was he riding?
20. Was it his worst horse?