CHAPTER XIV.

INVALIDED HOME.

Two days after the battle of Albuera, Lord Wellington himself arrived, and from the officers of his staff Tom heard the details of the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, which had been fought a few days previously, and which had been nearly as hardly contested as had Albuera itself, both sides claiming the victory.

The next day, the bulk of Beresford's army returned to the neighborhood of Badajos, which they again invested, while a long convoy of wounded started for Lisbon. The Scudamores accompanied it as far as Campo Major, where a large hospital had been prepared for those too ill to bear the journey. Peter was still unconscious. Fever had set in upon the day after the battle, and for three weeks he lay between life and death. Tom's arm was mending very slowly, and he would have had hard work indeed in nursing Peter had it not been for the arrival of unexpected assistance. A large villa had been taken close to the main hospital for the use of officers, and one of the rooms was allotted to the Scudamores.

Upon the evening of the second day after their arrival, Tom was sitting by Peter's bedside, when, after a preliminary tap, the door opened, and to Tom's perfect amazement Sambo entered. The negro hurried forward, threw himself on his knees, seized Tom's hand and kissed it passionately, and then looking at the thin and fever-flushed face of Peter, he hid his face in his hands and sobbed unrestrainedly. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who visited Peter while Tom was by his bed?
2. Is he happy to see them?
3. What race is Sambo?
4. Who starts to cry?
5. Where does most of Beresford's troops go?
6. Had they been there before?
7. Where did the injured go?
8. was there a lot of them?
9. What was at Campo Major?
10. Was it for all the injured?
11. Who could stay there?
12. Where did the Scudamores leave the convoy?
13. Who was sick?
14. Was he awake?
15. How long had he had a high temperature?
16. Was it possible he could die?
17. What was wrong with Tom?
18. Did they have their own room?
19. What type of building were they in?
20. Who was taking care of Peter?
Answer: 1. Sambo
2. yes
3. negro
4. Sambo
5. Badajos
6. yes
7. Lisbon
8. yes
9. a hospital
10. no
11. those too ill to bear the journey
12. Campo Major
13. Peter
14. no
15. three weeks
16. yes
17. his arm is injured
18. yes
19. a villa
20. Tom

Problem: I have a friend who is a princess of the piggies. No, really! She lives in a piggy castle and has piggy gowns and piggy balls and a piggy carriage, though no piggy crown. She loves being a princess, but sometimes it gets boring. There's only so much fun to be had walking around a castle. She likes to cook too. So sometimes, she goes to the kitchen. She has a lot of fun in the kitchen making new foods. She likes to pretend she's a cook! Someday she wants to be a piggy princess cook! One of her favorite things to cook is pea soup. She loves soup, and pea soup most of all, even if tomato is pretty good too. She doesn't like vegetable or chicken soup at all. She grows her own peas, mushes them up in the soup, and then stirs it all up with a spoon. She also cooks it on the stove. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. We're best friends!
1. What is my friend?
2. Of whom?
3. And where does she live?
4. And what does she have?
5. And what else?
6. Anything else?
7. And what doesn't she have?
8. What does she enjoy?
9. Is it always fun though?
10. Where does she walk?
11. What else does she enjoy doing?
12. Where does she occasionally go?
13. What does she do there?
14. What does she pretend?
15. And what does she aspire to be?
16. What's her favorite dish to prepare?
17. What other type does she enjoy?
18. And what ones doesn't she?
19. What does she grow?
20. What does she use to stir?
Answer: 1. a princess
2. the piggies
3. in a piggy castle
4. piggy gowns
5. piggy balls
6. a piggy carriage
7. a piggy crown
8. being a princess
9. No
10. around a castle
11. Cooking
12. the kitchen
13. make new foods
14. she's a cook
15. a piggy princess cook
16. pea soup
17. tomato
18. vegetable or chicken soup
19. her own peas
20. a spoon

question: How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month? Maybe 200 yuan? But for Li Beibei, 30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch--1.5 yuan each day. "Meat is too expensive for me," said Li. Li, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Beijing's Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers . They came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, He'nan two years ago. Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job. Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 am and rides her bike for 20 minutes to get to school. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework--usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all her work. During the weekdays she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. "I could cook when I was eight. Dad said sometimes I cook better than Mum!" Li said she wanted to be a doctor. "I watch TV and find out there are many people with AIDS in He'nan. Some are kids. They need help," said Li. But she is afraid to leave school. "I hope I will always be in school," said Li. "Dad works hard to get money. I promise him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future."
1. Does Li Beibei get an allowance?
2. How much does she get?
3. How often?
4. How old is she?
5. Where does she live?
6. How much does she pay for her midday meal?
7. Does she eat meat?
8. Why not?
9. Are her parents from Beijing?
10. How long have they lived there?
11. What is her father's job?
12. And her mother?
13. Does Li have a lot of friends?
14. How does she get to school?
15. What does she do after school?
16. Anything else?
17. What does she do on weekends?
18. What job does she want?
19. Why?
20. Does she want to leave school?
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answer:
1. Yes
2. 30 yuan
3. each month
4. 14
5. Beijing
6. 1.5 yuan
7. No
8. It's too expensive
9. No
10. Two years
11. He's a cleaner
12. Her mother has no job
13. Yes
14. She rides her bike
15. Homework
16. she helps her mum cook.
17. she helps wash clothes.
18. She wants to be a doctor
19. To help kids in He'nan with AIDS
20. No