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

question: Bob walked out the door with a huge grin on his face. It was his first day of middle school. His mom, who is a nurse at the high school, waved at him as he entered the bus. The bus driver said "good to see you Bob". Bob said "you too Mr. Smith". Bob was so excited to see his friends that he could barely breathe. As he walked down the school bus, Bob's friends Jill, Jim, Jeff and Chris all waved to him. Instead of sitting next to his best friend Chris, Bob turned left and sat next to Jill. Jeff and Jim started laughing at him and teased "Bob and Jill sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G". Bob's face turned red from embarrassment. Chris felt bad for Bob and reached into his pockets to help his friend. When he reached in, he felt a pencil, a rock and a folded up piece of paper. Chris's eyes twinkled. He had a plan. Without Jim and Jeff seeing, Chris quickly made a paper airplane with the piece of paper he found in his pocket. He threw the paper airplane at Jim. The plane hit Jim in the face. Both Jim and Jeff stopped laughing. Bob looked over to Chris and smiled.
1. Who has his first day of middle school today?
2. What does his mom do for work?
3. Why was he so excited?
4. Who did he sit next to?
5. How many friends does he have?
6. Who teased them?
7. Who is his closest friend?
8. Did he like what they were doing to his friend?
9. What did he do to make them stop?
10. Who is Mr. Smith?
11. How did Bob feel after his friend helped him?
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answer: 1. Bob
2. nurse
3. to see his friends
4. Jill
5. Four
6. Jeff and Jim
7. Chris
8. No
9. Made a paper airplane and threw it
10. bus driver
11. Happy

question: CHAPTER X

A BREEZE OF WIND

The hay was almost in when Frank and Harry stood one evening close under the apex of the roof in the log barn. The crop was heavy and because the barn was small it had been their business during the afternoon to spread and trample down the grass Jake flung up to them. They had been working at high pressure at one task or another since soon after daylight that morning, and now the confined space was very hot, though the sun was low. Its slanting rays smote the cedar shingles above their bent heads, and the dust that rose from the grass floated about them in a cloud and clung to their dripping faces. Frank felt that the veins on his forehead were swollen when they paused a moment for breath, leaning on their forks.

"I suppose we could get a couple more loads in, and there can't be more than that," said Harry dubiously. "I wouldn't mind a great deal if the next jumperful upset."

Frank devoutly wished it would, for he felt that he must get out into the open air, but a few moments later they heard the plodding oxen's feet and the groaning of the clumsy sled. The sounds ceased abruptly and Jake's voice reached them.

"Tramp it down good!" he called. "You've got to squeeze in this lot and another."

Frank choked down the answer which rose to his lips. But the hay must be got in, and the boys fell with their forks upon the first of the crackling grass Jake flung up to them. There seemed to be more dust in it than usual, and before the jumper was half unloaded they were panting heavily. When at last the oxen hauled the sled away they stood doubled up knee-deep in the hay with their backs close against the roof.
1. Who had been working on the hay?
2. Would would they have time for?
3. Who thought this?
4. Who needed air?
5. Who flung the grass?
6. What was there more of than normal?
7. What pulled the sled?
8. How was the weather?
9. What type of shingles are there?
10. How tall was the hay when they were done?
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answer:
1. Frank and Harry
2. to get a couple more loads in
3. Harry
4. Frank
5. oxen
6. dust
7. the oxen
8. very hot
9. cedar
10. unknown