Q: CHAPTER XIV.LEO MAKES A NEW FRIEND.

Leo found that the specialty company numbered fifteen people. The performers were, for the most part, of very ordinary ability. There were several song and dance men, a number of musicians who drew tunes out of a variety of articles, several lady vocalists, a comical fat man and a magician.

The magician was a young fellow, hardly older than Leo. His name was Carl Ross, and he had such a smiling face and gentlemanly manner that Leo took to him instantly.

"We want a good all-around gymnast and tumbler," said Carl Ross. "As it is the show is lop-sidedtoo much singing and dancing."

Leo was asked to give an exhibition of what he could do, and readily complied, performing at first on the floor of the stage and then on a bar let down from the flies.

"Very good!" said Nathan Wampole, highly pleased, and Carl Ross also smiled his approval.

At the conclusion of the show that evening Leo decided to join the company, and from that moment on he and Carl Ross became warm friends.

From Cokeville the company proceeded to Lumbertown and then to Wimblerun. For the time being Leo lost track of the circus and devoted himself entirely to his new position. His acts on the stage were well received, yet Carl Ross remained, as heretofore, the star of the combination.

"I wish I could do tricks," said Leo, as he watched the young magician at practice. "But I don't believe I could learn."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the new friend?
2. What's his name?
3. Who befriends him?
4. What can he do?
5. Are there many of them?
6. What are there many of?
7. Who else is part of the group?
8. Do we know what he does?
9. When did Leo decide to stay?
10. What did he want to learn?
11. Does he think he can?
12. What did he forget about?
13. What towns did he visit?
14. How many were in the group?
15. Were many extra special?
A: 1. The magician
2. Carl Ross
3. Leo
4. a gymnast and tumbler
5. no
6. Singers and dancers
7. Nathan Wampole
8. no
9. At the conclusion of the show that evening
10. tricks
11. no
12. the circus
13. Cokeville, Lumbertown and, Wimblerun.
14. fifteen people
15. no

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

A Scottish woman has given birth to twins for the third time. Karen Rodger, 41, welcomed her first pair of girls rowan and Isla after having twice given birth to twin boys.

"I still haven't really taken it on board because I was convinced I was having two boys," Rodger told Sky News. Karen said her husband Colin was equally stunned when the couple learned they were going to have their fifth and sixth child. "He thought I was joking and immediately wrote back to say 'this is not funny'. I had to explain that it really was true," Karen said.

The average couple has about a 3 percent chance of having twins when not accounting for fertility drugs. And with each following pregnancy, the changes of producing twins a second, or even third time, become less.

Karen, a dance lecturer, first learned of the incredibly rare occurrence during a visit to her doctor and immediately texted her husband to share the news. "I just could not believe it. It never crossed my mind that it would be twins again. I just thought that wouldn't happen to people like me, but I'm ly delighted," she said.

It had been several years since the couple's last children were born. Their oldest twins are 14 and the second set was born just two years later. "I turned 40 and I thought, if I'm going to do it, I should do it now," Karen said. "I spoken to my husband and we both thought we'd quite like another one so that was it and, one month later, I was pregnant."

Colin says the age and gender difference will ensure a sweat-inducing dilemma for any future suitors of the twin girls. It will be a frightening challenge for any boyfriend.

1. what is the percent chance a couple has twins?
2. how many children does Karen Rodger have?
3. what is her husbands name?
4. what did they name the new twins?
5. are they girls or boys?
6. is this there first set of girls?
7. what does Karen do for a living?
8. how many sets of twins does she have?
9. how old is the first set?
10. and the second?
11. did Karen think anything like this could happen?
12. was she happy about it?
13. how old was she when she got pregnant with them?
14. was Colin joking around when heard the news?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Three
2. six
3. Colin
4. rowan and Isla
5. girls
6. Yes
7. a dance lecturer,
8. Three
9. 14
10. 12
11. No
12. Yes
13. 40
14. Yes