question: CHAPTER XVIII

BOUND FOR TEXAS

"Hi! hi! phat--phat you mean py knocking mine stand ofer?" cried out a voice from the doorway of the building, and a small, stockily built foreigner came running forward.

"Get off of me!" spluttered Bill Glutts, who was under Gabe Werner. "You're pressing some of this broken stuff into my face!"

Werner could not answer, being too surprised by the sudden turn affairs had taken. But then, as he realized that the four Rovers were close at hand, he rolled over on the sidewalk, upsetting a small boy as he did so, and then managed to scramble to his feet.

"Come on, Bill!" he panted, and set off down the street at the best gait he could command.

What Bill Glutts had said about being pushed into the broken bric-a-brac was true. His face had come down into the midst of several broken vases, and one hand rested on a broken bit of glassware. When he arose to his feet he found himself held fast by the storekeeper.

"You don't vas git avay from me already!" bawled the owner of the place. "You vas pay for de damages you make."

"You let me go! It wasn't my fault!" stormed Glutts.

By this time the Rovers had come up. Bill Glutts looked the picture of despair, with blood flowing from several cuts on his face and on one hand.

"Where is Werner?" questioned Jack quickly.

"There he goes!" exclaimed Randy. "Come on after him before he gets away."
1. What's Bill's last name?
2. Who was he under?
3. Why couldn't he answer?
4. Where was Bill's hand resting?
5. Who was holding onto him as he got up?
6. What did he want Bill to pay for?
7. Where was Bill bleeding from?
8. Did he look happy?
9. Did the shopkeeper speak good English?
10. How many Rovers were there?
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answer: 1. Glutts
2. Gabe Werner
3. He was suprised at what happened.
4. on his face
5. the storekeeper
6. damages
7. several cuts on his face and on one hand
8. No
9. No
10. four

question: CHAPTER II

HESTER THINKS IT "A GREAT PITY"

"You will understand," Mannering said, as the brougham drove off, "that you and I are speaking together merely as friends. I have nothing official to say to you. It would be presumption on my part to assume that the time is ripe for anything definite while you are still at the head of an unbeaten Government. But one learns to read the signs of the times. I think that you and I both know that you cannot last the session."

"It is a positive luxury at times," Redford answered, "to be able to indulge in absolute candour. We cannot last the session. You pulled us through our last tight corner, but we shall part, I suppose, on the New Tenement Bill, and then we shall come a cropper."

Mannering nodded.

"The Opposition," he said, "are not strong enough to form a Government alone. And I do not think that a one-man Cabinet would be popular. It has been suggested to me that at no time in political history have the conditions been more favourable for a really strong coalition Government, containing men of moderate views on both sides. I am anxious to know whether you would be willing to join such a combination."

"Under whom?" Lord Redford asked.

"Under myself," Mannering answered, gravely. "Don't think me over-presumptuous. The matter has been very carefully thought out. You could not serve under Rushleigh, nor could he serve under you. But you could both be invaluable members of a Cabinet of which I was the nominal head. I do not wish to entrap you into consent, however, without your fully understanding this: a modified, and to a certain extent an experimental, scheme of tariff reform would be part of our programme."
1. Were the two men having a conversation on the record?
2. What was the name of the man who started the discussion?
3. Who was the man responding to him?
4. Was the second man a noble?
5. Did he believe his party would endure the term?
6. Where did he believe his party and the other man's, would differ?
7. Was he grateful for the chance to be honest?
8. Did the first man say it was time for certain action?
9. Did he thing the opposing party was strong?
10. What did he suggest wouldn't be popular?
11. What did he believe circumstances favored?
12. With what kind of membership?
13. Was he relaxed?
14. What did he want to know?
15. Who did he suggest would lead it?
16. Was the plan hastily decided?
17. Who did he suggest Redford would be unable to work for?
18. Did he believe the reverse was true as well?
19. How did he characterize the value of their service to him?
20. What vehicle left as the conversation began?
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answer: 1. No.
2. Mannering
3. Redford
4. Yes.
5. No.
6. on the New Tenement Bill
7. Yes.
8. No.
9. No.
10. a one-man Cabinet
11. a really strong coalition Government
12. men of moderate views
13. No.
14. whether Redford would be willing to join such a combination
15. Himself.
16. No.
17. Rushleigh
18. Yes.
19. invaluable
20. the brougham

question: On the way home from his job at a bakery in Wainscot, New York, one August evening,Craig Schum,33,stopped his car at the East Hampton Airport. A group was protesting, airplane noise,and Schum,who had kicked off his shoes,got out of the car.

Within seconds, though,Schum saw something astonishing.A small plane dived and crashed into the woods about l00 yards from the runway."I don't remember making the decision that I should go help out," he recalls."I just started running."

Sehum ran across the street barefoot,climbed over a six--foot-high chain link fence, and dashed about l00 yards toward the woods.When he got there, he discovered 5l yea r-old pilot Stephen Bochter,his head bleeding,beside the burning plane.Bochter's passenger,his wife, Kim Brillo,was on the ground, unconscious "She had blood all over her."says Schum."I thought she was dead."

Jack Gleeson,17,a high school student working a summer job at the airport,caught up to Schum and,with Bochter's help, 1ifted the chain-link fence and brought Brillo underneath it.Moments later,the entire plane exploded.

After the rescue team arrived,Bochter and Brillo were airlifted to a nearby hospital and treated for cuts,injuries and Brillo's broken arm, Bochter, an experienced pilot, 1ater said that the plane's electrical system had failed shortly after takeoff.He had been attempting to land at the East Hampton Airport when the plane began to nosedive.He managed to level the wings before crashing into the woods.

"Everything was on fire,and Schum came out of nowhere to save us."says Bochter."We're blessed to have lived through it"
1. Who is Jack Gleeson?
2. How old is he?
3. Where did Craig Schum stop his car?
4. What did he do with his shoes?
5. What did he see next?
6. What did he climb over?
7. Who did he find?
8. And who else?
9. Were they ok?
10. Who caught up to Schum to help?
11. When did the plane explode?
12. How did Bochter and Brillo get to the hospital?
13. What failed shortly after taking off?
14. Where was Bochter trying to land?
15. How old was Craig Schum?
16. Where did the plane crash?
17. Where did it crash?
18. How far was it from the runway?
19. What did Schum start doing right after?
20. How old was Stephen Bochter?
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answer:
1. a high school student
2. 17
3. East Hampton Airport
4. kicked them off
5. a plane crashed
6. a chain link fence
7. Stephen Bochter
8. Kim Brillo
9. no
10. Jack Gleeson
11. Moments later
12. They were airlifted
13. the plane's electrical system
14. at the East Hampton Airport
15. 33
16. August
17. Wainscot, New York
18. about l00 yards
19. running
20. 5l