Q: CHAPTER XIII

IN WHICH SOME SHOES ARE MISSING

"What do you think of it?"

"Who took them?"

"We can't go downstairs in our bare feet."

Such were some of the remarks made, as the lads of dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 looked at each other. The closets had been searched thoroughly but without success.

"See here, if anybody in these rooms hid those shoes, I want to know it!" demanded Sam, gazing around sharply.

"I hardly think a fellow would hide his own shoes, too," answered Luke.

"He might,--just to hide his own guilt."

"I believe this is the work of some outsider," declared Dave. "Most likely Nat Poole and his crowd."

"By Jove, Dave, I believe you are right!" exclaimed Phil. "It would be just like them to do it, if they got the chance."

"Did you say Nat Poole?" queried Shadow, scratching his head thoughtfully.

"I did. Most likely Nat heard of our feast, and it made him extra sore to think we were having a good time and he wasn't invited."

"That is true, and I guess----" Shadow stopped short, and a curious look crossed his face.

"What is it, Shadow? Do you know anything of this?" asked Roger.

"Why, I--er--that is, I had a dream last night," stammered the story-teller of the school. "Or, maybe it wasn't a dream after all," he went on, in confusion.

"See here, Shadow, have you been sleep-walking again, and did you make off with our shoes?" demanded Phil. He remembered only too well how poor Shadow was addicted to walking in his sleep, and how he had once walked off with a valuable collection of rare postage stamps belonging to Doctor Clay.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is missing?
2. Where do the owners of the shoes live?
3. Who do they think may have taken the shoes?
4. Are they part of the group?
5. What would have made Nat jealous?
6. Was he invited?
7. Do they think he might have found out about it?
8. How does Sam feel about the situation?
9. Does he have a kind look on his face?
10. Who was he looking at?
A: 1. shoes
2. dormitories Nos. 11 and 12
3. at Poole and his crowd.
4. no
5. our feast,
6. no
7. Most likely
8. He wanted to know who took them
9. No, he was gazing around sharply
10. everyone one around
Q: CHAPTER XV.

BERT COMES BACK.

One raw March evening, when the wind was roaring among the gray branches of the maples like a lion in wrath, some one knocked on the door.

"Come in!" shouted Anson, who was giving baby her regular ride on his boots.

"Come in!" added Flaxen.

Gearheart walked in slowly, closed the door behind his back, and stood devouring the cheerful scene. He was poorly dressed and wore a wide, limp hat; they did not know him till he bared his head.

"Bert!" yelled Anson, tossing the baby to his shoulder and leaping toward his chum, tramping and shaking and clapping like a madman, scaring the child.

"My gosh-all-hemlock! I'm glad to see ye! Gimme that paw again. Come to the fire. This is Flaxie" (as though he had not had his eyes on her face all the time). "Be'n sick?"

Bert's hollow cough prompted this question.

"Yes. Had some kind of a fever down in Arizony. Oh, I'm all right now," he added in reply to an anxious look from Flaxen.

"An' this is----"

"Baby--Elsie," she replied, putting a finishing touch to the little one's dress, mother-like.

"Where's he?" he asked a little later.

Anson replied with a little gesture, which silenced Bert at the same time that it explained. And when Flaxen was busy a few moments later, Anson said:

"Gone up the spout."

At the table they grew quite gay, talking over old times, and Bert's pale face grew rosier, catching a reflection of the happy faces opposite.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who had a baby?
2. Who was not dressed well?
3. Was he wearing a something on his head?
4. What?
5. Did they recognize him at first?
6. At what point did they know it was him?
7. What was the baby's name?
8. And what was she wearing?
9. Was Bert's face tanned?
10. Was the mood as they spoke at the table happy?
11. Did more than one person say, "Come in" at the beginning?
12. Who said it?
13. Was the story set in the month of May?
14. What month?
15. Did Gearheart leave the door open?
16. What was Gearheart's first name?
17. Had Bert been ill?
18. How?
19. In what state?
20. Did Anson frighten the baby when he saw Bert?
A: 1. Anson
2. Gearheart
3. yes
4. wide, limp hat
5. no
6. when he bared his head
7. Elsie
8. dress
9. unknown
10. yes
11. yes
12. Anson and Flaxen
13. no
14. March
15. no
16. Bert
17. "Yes
18. Had some kind of a fever
19. Arizony
20. yes
Q: Susan wang I have a best friend. His name is James. He is from the USA. We look _ different! I have blonde hair but he has red hair. I wear glasses but he doesn't. I am short but he is very tall. I'm very outgoing but he is very quiet. However, we both love singing and dancing. Sam Green I don't really have a best friend but one of my good friends is Kristi. She is from America. I sometimes call her Kwiti. She is funny and kind. And she really cares about everyone and almost everything. She became one of my good friends at the age of five. Mary Smith My best friend's name is Edna. She comes from Australia. She likes to talk a lot and hardly keeps quiet. Edna has curly brown hair and brown eyes. She always makes me laugh. Also, she sometimes helps me with my homework. Lisa Brown I have a best friend from India. Her name is Sinsha. I call her Kuttu. She is short. She has a round face and black eyes. She has long black hair. I can hardly get sad or angry when I'm with her. She often makes me happy.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Susan Wang's best friend?
2. From where?
3. Do they both wear glasse/
4. Who has red hair?
5. Who is outgoing from the both of them?
6. Does Sam Green have a best a friend?
7. Any good friend at all?
8. At what age did they become friends?
9. Is she caring?
10. Who is Mary Smith's best friend?
11. From where?
12. Does she keep quiet?
13. What color eyes does she have?
14. does she have straight hair?
15. Whose best friend is from India?
16. what's her name?
17. What does Lisa call her?
18. Is she tall?
19. What color eyes?
20. Is she always happy around her?
A:
1. James
2. the USA
3. no
4. he does
5. she is
6. no
7. yes
8. five
9. yes
10. Edna
11. She comes from Australia
12. no
13. brown
14. no
15. Lisa Brown's
16. Sinsha
17. Kuttu
18. no
19. black
20. yes