question: CHAPTER VIII: PASSING THE OUBLIETTE

Who can describe the dreariness of being snowed-up all the winter with such a mother-in-law as Freiherrinn Kunigunde?

Yet it was well that the snow came early, for it was the best defence of the lonely castle from any attack on the part of the Schlangenwaldern, the Swabian League, or the next heir, Freiherr Kasimir von Adlerstein Wildschloss. The elder Baroness had, at least, the merit of a stout heart, and, even with her sadly-reduced garrison, feared none of them. She had been brought up in the faith that Adlerstein was impregnable, and so she still believed; and, if the disaster that had cut off her husband and son was to happen at all, she was glad that it had befallen before the homage had been paid. Probably the Schlangenwald Count knew how tough a morsel the castle was like to prove, and Wildschloss was serving at a distance, for nothing was heard of either during the short interval while the roads were still open. During this time an attempt had been made through Father Norbert to ascertain what had become of the corpses of the two Barons and their followers, and it had appeared that the Count had carried them all off from the inn, no doubt to adorn his castle with their limbs, or to present them to the Emperor in evidence of his zeal for order. The old Baron could not indeed have been buried in consecrated ground, nor have masses said for him; but for the weal of her son's soul Dame Kunigunde gave some of her few ornaments, and Christina added her gold earrings, and all her scanty purse, that both her husband and father might be joined in the prayers of the Church--trying with all her might to put confidence in Hugh Sorel's Loretto relic, and the Indulgence he had bought, and trusting with more consolatory thoughts to the ever stronger dawnings of good she had watched in her own Eberhard.
1. Name one of the possible attackers of the castle?
2. And another?
3. Was the Baroness afraid of any of them?
4. Even though what had been reduced ?
5. Do you think that the narrator's mother-in-law is the Baroness?
6. And what do you think Adlerstein is?
7. When did the snow start this year?
8. So what was the greatest thing that defended the castle?
9. Which Dame is mentioned in the story?
10. Did she give something?
11. What did she give?
12. Anything else?
13. Did anyone else give something?
14. Who was that?
15. How many Barons were lost?
16. Was anyone lost?
17. What was the full name of the next heir?
18. Who was it that they asked about the location of the bodies?
19. And what was the guess about that?
20. And what else Mmight the Count have done with them?
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answer: 1. the Swabian League
2. Schlangenwaldern
3. No
4. garrison
5. Yes
6. the next heir
7. the snow came early
8. the snow
9. Christina
10. yes
11. gold earrings
12. all her scanty purse
13. yes
14. Kunigunde
15. two
16. The old Baron
17. Freiherr Kasimir von Adlerstein Wildschloss.
18. Father Norbert
19. that the Count had carried them all off
20. adorn his castle with their limbs,

question: CHAPTER XXXVIII.

_Tancred's Recovery_

TANCRED rapidly recovered. On the second day after his recognition of Eva, he had held that conversation with Fakredeen which had determined the young Emir not to lose a moment in making the effort to induce Amalek to forego his ransom, the result of which he had communicated to Eva on their subsequent interview. On the third day, Tancred rose from his couch, and would even have quitted the tent, had not Baroni dissuaded him. He was the more induced to do so, for on this day he missed his amusing companion, the Emir. It appeared from the account of Baroni, that his highness had departed at dawn, on his dromedary, and without an attendant. According to Baroni, nothing was yet settled either as to the ransom or the release of Tancred. It seemed that the great Sheikh had been impatient to return to his chief encampment, and nothing but the illness of Tancred would probably have induced him to remain in the Stony Arabia as long as he had done. The Lady Eva had not, since her arrival at the ruined city, encouraged Baroni in any communication on the subject which heretofore during their journey had entirely occupied her consideration, from which he inferred that she had nothing very satisfactory to relate; yet he was not without hope, as he felt assured that Eva would not have remained a day were she convinced that there was no chance of effecting her original purpose. The comparative contentment of the great Sheikh at this moment, her silence, and the sudden departure of Fakredeen, induced Baroni to believe that there was yet something on the cards, and, being of a sanguine disposition, he sincerely encouraged his master, who, however, did not appear to be very desponding.
1. Who stopped Tancred from getting up and moving about on day three?
2. Who was the main character missing on this particular day?
3. At what time did he depart?
4. How many assistants were with him?
5. How much was the ransom?
6. What might keep the Sheikh in Stony Arabia?
7. What is the condition of the city?
8. Who did Eva never encourage?
9. Who departed suddenly making Baroni hopeful?
10. Was the Sheikh in a bad mood?
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answer: 1. Baroni
2. the Emir
3. at dawn
4. none
5. nothing was yet settled
6. the illness of Tancred
7. ruined
8. Baroni
9. Fakredeen
10. yes

question: CHAPTER XV

THE SNOWBALL BATTLE

"Now then, fellows, for the greatest snowball battle of the age!"

"Here is where Company A smothers Company B!"

"Rats! You mean that Company B will bury Company A out of sight!"

"Hi, Major Ruddy! What side are you going on?" queried Bart Conners, who still commanded Company B.

"He is coming on our side!" answered Henry Lee, the captain of the other company.

"Well, I can't fight on both sides," answered the young major with a laugh.

"Go with the company that wins!" suggested Pepper, with a grin.

"Toss up a cent for it," suggested Andy.

"All right, I'll toss up," answered Jack, and did so, and it was decided that he should fight with Company B.

"Good enough!" cried Pepper, who was in that command. "Now Company A is licked, sure!"

"Not much!" was the answer from Stuffer Singleton. "We'll win, sure!"

"We will, unless you stop to eat a doughnut!" put in Joe Nelson, and at this remark a general laugh went up, for Stuffer had once lost a long-distance running race because he stopped on the way to devour some cookies he had in his pocket.

It was after school hours, and the cadets had gathered on the field where, during the summer, corn had been raised. It was to be a battle between the two companies of the school battalion, with the company captain as leader on each side.

The preliminary rules were speedily arranged. Lines were drawn at either end of the field, about five hundred feet apart. In the center, about a hundred feet apart, two other lines were drawn. Along the latter lines the cadets arranged themselves.
1. what does Company A do to the other company?
2. who was the other company?
3. who said with a smile
4. what did they throw up in the air?
5. who said I can't argue both issues?
6. what was grown on the land where they got together?
7. what was 1200 inches apart?
8. how about 6000 inches away?
9. who got themselves in order on the boundry?
10. what would they possibly take time to consume by mouth?
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answer:
1. smothers them
2. Company B
3. Pepper
4. a cent
5. the young major with a laugh.
6. corn
7. , two other lines
8. Lines were drawn at either end of the field
9. the cadets
10. a doughnut