CHAPTER VII Unfruitful Suggestions

"Raymond! Can you spare me a moment before you go into your mother's room?"

It was Rosamond who, to his surprise, as he was about to go down- stairs, met him and drew him into her apartment--his mother's own dressing-room, which he had not entered since the accident.

"Is anything the matter?" he said, thinking that Julius might have spared him from complaints of Cecil.

"Oh no! only one never can speak to you, and Julius told me that you could tell me about Mrs. Poynsett. I can't help thinking she could be moved more than she is." Then, as he was beginning to speak, "Do you know that, the morning of the fire, I carried her with only one of the maids to the couch under the tent-room window? Susan was frightened out of her wits, but she was not a bit the worse for it."

"Ah! that was excitement."

"But if it did not hurt her then, why should it hurt her again? There's old General M'Kinnon, my father's old friend, who runs about everywhere in a wheeled-chair with a leg-rest; and I can't think why she should not do the same."

Raymond smiled kindly on her, but rather sadly; perhaps he was recollecting his morning's talk about the occupancy of the drawing- room. "You know it is her spine," he said.

"So it is with him. His horse rolled over him at Sebastopol, and he has never walked since. I wanted to write to Mary M'Kinnon; but Julius said I had better talk to you, because he was only at home for a fortnight, when she was at the worst, and you knew more about it." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who called out Raymond?
2. where was Raymond going to at the time?
3. where did she take him?
4. had he been there?
5. who did he think was sparing him?
6. from?
7. who did Rosamond want to talk to him about?
8. where did she say she carried her to?
9. with who?
10. where was the couch?
11. was anyone frightened?
12. who is the father's old friend?
13. does he use a cane?
14. then what?
15. what is special about it?
16. was he hit by a car?
17. what happened?
18. where?
19. and what is the problem with Mrs Poynsett?
20. does Rosamond want her to use a wheelchair?
Answer: 1. Rosamond
2. down- stairs
3. into her apartment
4. not since the accident
5. Julius
6. complaints
7. Mrs. Poynsett
8. the couch
9. one of the maids
10. under the tent-room window
11. Susan
12. General M'Kinnon
13. no
14. a wheeled-chair
15. it has a leg-rest
16. no
17. His horse rolled over him
18. at Sebastopol
19. her spine
20. yes

CHAPTER IV

IN THE GYMNASIUM

"Company attention! Carry arms! Present arms! Shoulder arms! Forward march!"

Captain Jack Rover, assisted by Lieutenant Fred Rover and his other officers, was drilling Company C in a corner of the gymnasium of Colby Hall. It was two days after the adventure on the Rick Rack River, and it was still raining, so that drilling in the open was almost out of the question.

The four cadets who had taken part in the rescue of John Franklin and his son Phil had explained the situation to Captain Dale on their return to the school and had been warmly praised by that old West Point military man for their bravery.

It may be mentioned here that Captain Dale had been in charge of the school since Colonel Colby had volunteered for the war and gone to France to fight.

Many of the cadets hated the rain and hoped it would soon clear. They loved drilling in the open far more than when held indoors, and they also wished to get at baseball and other Spring sports.

"It's a shame it doesn't let up," remarked Gif Garrison, after the drilling had come to an end and the rifles had been put away in their cases along the wall. Gif was a big youth, and the recognized head of many of the athletic sports.

"Well, we have to take such matters as they come," returned Spouter Powell, running his hand through his heavy brush of hair. "Were it not for the gentle rains, and the dews later on, the fields and slopes of the hills would not be clothed in the verdant green which all true lovers of nature so much admire. Instead we might have a bleak barrenness, a dissolution which would appall----" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was marching?
2. led by whom?
3. was it sunny?
4. where were they being drilled?
5. how long after their recent adventure?
6. was someone rescued?
7. who?
8. who else?
9. by whom?
10. who did they talk to?
11. were there weapons?
12. were they praised for their rescue?
13. what kind of weapons?
14. where were they now?
15. was the weather liked?
16. what sports wanted to be played?
17. who went to france?
18. why?
19. was gif small?
20. were they drilling outside?
Answer: 1. Company C
2. Captain Jack Rover
3. No
4. in a corner of the gymnasium of Colby Hall
5. 2 days
6. Yes
7. John Franklin
8. his son Phil
9. four cadets
10. Captain Dale
11. unknown
12. Yes
13. rifles
14. in their cases
15. No
16. baseball
17. Colonel Colby
18. for the war
19. No
20. No

The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) constitute a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25 million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, which are official languages of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia, respectively, and of the European Union. Other Uralic languages with significant numbers of speakers are Erzya, Moksha, Mari, Udmurt, and Komi, which are officially recognized languages in various regions of Russia.

The name "Uralic" derives from the fact that areas where the languages are spoken spread on both sides of the Ural Mountains. Also, the original homeland (Urheimat) is commonly hypothesized to lie in the vicinity of the Urals.

Finno-Ugric is sometimes used as a synonym for Uralic, though Finno-Ugric is widely understood to exclude the Samoyedic languages. Scholars who do not accept the traditional notion that Samoyedic split first from the rest of the Uralic family, such as Tapani Salminen, may treat both terms as synonymous.

In recent times, linguists often place the Urheimat (original homeland) of the Proto-Uralic language in the vicinity of the Volga River, west of the Urals, close to the Urheimat of the Indo-European languages, or to the east and southeast of the Urals. Gyula Laszlo places its origin in the forest zone between the Oka River and central Poland. E.N. Setala and M.Zsirai place it between the Volga and Kama Rivers. According to E.Itkonen, the ancestral area extended to the Baltic Sea. P.Hajdu has suggested a homeland in western and northwestern Siberia. Recent ancient DNA analysis revealed that Uralic haplogroup N1 (Y-DNA) was originated from northeastern China, Liao river region, which is a new candidate of the homeland. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What language's original homeland is Urheimat?
2. What does the name come from?
3. Is this just one tongue, or is it made up of many?
4. How many?
5. By how many?
6. Is Tasmania somewhere this is prevalent?
7. How many countries are the most fluent?
8. Does anywhere else also use it to a lesser degree?
9. Where?
10. Does a governing body also recognize it?
11. Which one?
12. Where do those who study these tongues think the original home of this tongue is today?
13. Is this in dispute?
14. What's the most recent theory of where it is?
15. Is there science behind this?
16. What kind?
Answer:
1. Uralic
2. Ural Mountains
3. Many
4. 38
5. 25 million people
6. No
7. Hungary, Finland, and Estonia
8. Yes
9. Russia
10. YEs
11. Various regional governments of Russia
12. Near the Urals
13. Yes
14. Northeastern China
15. Yes
16. DNA analysis