input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

A KNOTTY QUESTION.

"Tom Blunt," said Richard Sharp, "I deny your premises, condemn your reasoning as illogical, and reject your conclusions with scorn!"

The youth who made this remark with very considerable assurance and emphasis was a student. His fellow-student received it with an air of bland good-nature.

"Dick," said he, "your oratory is rotund, and if it were convincing might be impressive; but it fails to some extent in consequence of a certain smack of self-assertion which is unphilosophical. Suppose, now, that we have this matter out in a calm, dispassionate manner, without 'tooth,' or egotism, or prejudice, which tend so powerfully to mar human disputation and render it abortive."

"With all my heart, Tom," said the other, drawing close to the fire, placing one foot against the mantelpiece, as being a comfortable, though not elegant posture, resting his elbows on the arms of his chair, and placing his hands in that position--with all the finger tips touching each other--which seems, from the universal practice of civilised society, to assist mental elucidation. "I am quite prepared. Come on!"

"Stay; while my mind is working I like to have my hands employed. I will proceed with my monkey while we talk," said Blunt, taking up a walking-stick, the head of which he had carved into the semblance of a monkey. "Sweet creature!" he added, kissing the object of his affection, and holding it out at arm's-length. "Silent companion of my solitary rambles, and patient auditor of my most secret aspirations, you are becoming quite a work of art. A few more touches of the knife, and something like perfection shall have been attained! Look here, Dick, when I turn it towards the light--so--isn't there a beauty about the contour of that upper lip and nose which--" 1. Who is having a conversation?
2. What is Richard's nickname?
3. What is their occupation?
4. Does Dick agree with Tom?
5. Are they indoors?
6. What are they sitting by?
7. Is Dick sitting on a stool?
8. What is he sitting on?
9. What did he put on the chair's arms?
10. What might help him think?
11. What's special about that?
12. Is he sitting in a refined position?
13. What does Tom want to do to help him think?
14. What is he working on?
15. What is he doing to it?
16. Which part?
17. What animal is he making it look like?
18. Does he think he's doing a good job?
19. What does he think about Dicks speech?
20. Is this a friendly debate?
numbered_answers: 1. Tom Blunt and Richard Sharp
2. Dick
3. they're students
4. no
5. yes
6. a fire
7. no
8. a chair
9. his elbows
10. the position of his hands
11. all the fingertips are touching
12. no
13. have his hands employed
14. a walking-stick
15. carving it
16. the head
17. a monkey
18. yes
19. it's unconvincing
20. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Rocky's been a fictional hero for decades, but in Edmonton, Alberta, today there's a hero named Rocky who is definitely real -- only he's 8 years old and has four legs.

This Rocky, a Labrador retriever-husky mix, is being hailed for pulling a 9-year-old girl from an icy river on Easter Sunday. His owner, Adam Shaw, 27, is getting similar praise.

"If that man and dog weren't there -- I just try not to think of it," Miranda Wagner, the mother of Samara, 9, and her 10-year-old sister, Krymzen, said in an interview with CNN affiliate CTV.

"I just want to give him a big hug and tell him he's my hero. If he wasn't there I wouldn't have my girls," Wagner said. "Doctors said two more minutes and Samara would have been gone."

Rocky and Shaw's heroics played out on the icy North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton on Sunday afternoon. The girls were tobogganing in a riverside park when they ended up on ice extending from the riverbank, their father, Corey Sunshine, told CNN affiliate CBC.

"From what I was told was, one of the toboggans came off the snowbank and onto the ice and they were trying to come back and the ice broke," he said.

Shaw said he was walking on a bridge over the river when he heard screams. Looking down on the river he saw one girl in the icy water and her sister trying to pull her out.

By the time he and Rocky sprinted down to the river, both girls were in the water. 1. In what city does the story take place?
2. Is the Rocky in the story a person?
3. What is he?
4. On what body of water did Rocky's heroics take place?
5. Was it summertime?
6. What did dog do?
7. When?
8. How old was the girl?
9. What was her name?
10. Does she have siblings?
11. Was Samara at big risk?
12. How long could she have survived longer?
13. According to whom?
14. Where was Samara doing before falling in the river?
15. Where?
16. Was she alone?
17. Was the dog alone?
18. What's his owner's name?
19. How old is he?
numbered_answers:
1. in Edmonton, Alberta
2. no
3. a Labrador retriever-husky mix
4. North Saskatchewan River
5. No
6. He pulled a girl out of the river
7. on Easter Sunday
8. Nine
9. Samara
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Less than two minutes
13. Doctors
14. Tobogganing
15. in a riverside park
16. No
17. No
18. Adam Shaw
19. 27