Make use of the article to answer the questions.

CHAPTER TEN.

PERPLEXITIES--OUR HUNTERS PLAN THEIR ESCAPE--UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION-- THE TABLES TURNED--CRUSOE MOUNTS GUARD--THE ESCAPE.

Dick Varley sat before the fire ruminating. We do not mean to assert that Dick had been previously eating grass. By no means. For several days past he had been mentally subsisting on the remarkable things that he heard and saw in the Pawnee village, and wondering how he was to get away without being scalped; he was now chewing the cud of this intellectual fare. We therefore repeat emphatically--in case any reader should have presumed to contradict us--that Dick Varley sat before the fire _ruminating_!

Joe Blunt likewise sat by the fire along with him, ruminating too, and smoking besides. Henri also sat there smoking, and looking a little the worse of his late supper.

"I don't like the look o' things," said Joe, blowing a whiff of smoke slowly from his lips, and watching it as it ascended into the still air. "That blackguard Mahtawa is determined not to let us off till he gits all our goods, an' if he gits them, he may as well take our scalps too, for we would come poor speed in the prairies without guns, horses, or goods."

Dick looked at his friend with an expression of concern. "What's to be done?" said he.

"Ve must escape," answered Henri; but his tone was not a hopeful one, for he knew the danger of their position better than Dick.

"Ay, we must escape; at least we must try," said Joe; "but I'll make one more effort to smooth over San-it-sa-rish, an' git him to snub that villain Mahtawa."

1. Who was in front of the flames?
2. Where did Dick have an experience a few days before?
3. What was on his mind?
4. Who was there with him?
5. What was he hoping would not happen before he got away?
6. What was he hoping would not happen before he got away?
7. Was Joe optimistic?
8. What else besides sitting by the fire, was Blunt doing?
9. Who is the guard?
10. Who felt the best option is to get away?
11. Who is holding them captive?
12. Who agrees with Henri about getting away?
13. What will he try one last time before pursuing their plan?
1. Dick Varley
2. the Pawnee village
3. The events of the past several days
4. Joe Blunt
5. being scalped
6. Getting scalped
7. No
8. smoking
9. unknown
10. Henri
11. That blackguard Mahtawa
12. Joe
13. An effort to smooth over San-it-sa-rish