Q: CHAPTER XXIX

"Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him," Collins told Johnny. "I know Del Mar must have been right when he said he was the limit, but I can't get a clue to it."

This followed upon a fight between Michael and Collins. Michael, more morose than ever, had become even crusty-tempered, and, scarcely with provocation at all, had attacked the man he hated, failing, as ever, to put his teeth into him, and receiving, in turn, a couple of smashing kicks under his jaw.

"He's like a gold-mine all right all right," Collins meditated, "but I'm hanged if I can crack it, and he's getting grouchier every day. Look at him. What'd he want to jump me for? I wasn't rough with him. He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day."

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale.

"I've only got one left now," he explained, "and I ain't safe without two."

"What's happened to the other one?" the master-trainer queried.

"Alphonso--that's the big buck leopard--got nasty this morning and settled his hash. I had to put him out of his misery. He was gutted like a horse in the bull-ring. But he saved me all right. If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often. That's the second dog he's killed for me."

1. Wash his hands of him.
2. Johnny.
3. Del Mar.
4. A gold-mine.
5. Michael and Collins.
6. Michael.
7. No.
8. As a tow-headed young man.
9. Cedarwild
10. One.

Numbered questions:
1. What did Collins say he had to do?
2. Who did Collins say it to?
3. Who did he say was right?
4. What did he say he was like?
5. Who fought?
6. Who fought a guy he didn't like?
7. Was Collins rough with him?
8. How do they describe his customer?
9. Where was he performing?
10. How many does he have leftover?

Q: ST. GEORGE, Utah (CNN) -- A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape.

Prosecutors filed the rape charge against Allen Steed, 26, a day after a jury found Jeffs guilty of two rape-accomplice counts in connection with Steed's ill-fated 2001 marriage to Elissa Wall.

Jurors found that Jeffs used his authority as leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, to push the girl into a marriage she did not want.

Steed was 19 and his bride, who also was his first cousin, was 14 when Jeffs "sealed" them in spiritual marriage at a motel in Caliente, Nevada, where many FLDS weddings were performed. Three other couples also were married that day in separate ceremonies, according to testimony.

Steed is accused of having sex with the girl against her will several weeks into the marriage.

Steed testified for the defense at Jeffs' trial. He said his new wife was affectionate to him in private, but cold in public. He denied that he or Jeffs had forced sex on her.

Wall agreed to be identified publicly as the trial ended in hopes of encouraging other women who feel trapped by polygamy to come forward. Watch Wall urge other girls to be brave "

She testified that she told Steed she was not ready and that her first sexual encounter made her feel dirty, used and trapped.

Her pleas to church leaders to end the marriage were ignored, and Jeffs told her to submit "mind, body and soul" to her new husband, Wall told the jury.

1. Warren Jeffs
2. rape
3. unknown
4. 19
5. Elissa Wall
6. yes
7. first cousin
8. no
9. yes
10. Jeffs
11. yes
12. a motel in Caliente, Nevada
13. Three
14. yes
15. cold
16. 2001
17. no
18. 14

Numbered questions:
1. who is a sect leader?
2. what was he charged with?
3. on what day?
4. how old is Allen Steed?
5. who was his bride?
6. were they related?
7. how so?
8. Did she tell steed she was ready?
9. Did Wall agree to be publically identified?
10. Who was leader of FLDS
11. did he use his authority to force her into marriage?
12. where were FLDS weddings performed?
13. how many other couples were married that day
14. was the wife nice in private?
15. in public?
16. what year were they married?
17. was it a good marriage?
18. how old was she when she was sealed to him in marriage?

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1. Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. 30/11/2006
4. PS28.00
5. yes
6. fifty-six
7. yes
8. cultural details
9. Richard Louv
10. 11/08/2006
11. PS20.99
12. free-range

Numbered questions:
1. Who wrote this book?
2. What's the name of it?
3. When was it published?
4. How much is it?
5. Are the stories put in any certain order?
6. How many stories are there?
7. Does it include information about Victorian society?
8. What kind?
9. Who wrote Last Child in the woods?
10. When was it put into print?
11. How much does it cost?
12. What kind of childhood are kids missing out on?