Q: Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a _ in every step. Tom appeared with a bucket of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence around the garden. It was ninety feet long and nine feet high. He felt very blue. Then he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and started to work. Soon Ben came along the road. He was happily eating an apple. He stopped to look at Tom. Tom went on painting and pretended not to see Ben. "I'm going swimming," said Ben. "Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I guess you can't. You have to stay and work, don't you?" "Work?" Tom said. "This isn't work. I'm enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?" Ben thought about this. Tom continued painting carefully. Sometimes he stopped, stood back to look at the fence like an artist, and then added a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching Tom paint with great interest. He was getting more and more eager to have a try himself. After a while, Ben asked Tom if he would let him paint a little. Tom thought about it, and said, "No, Ben, I can't. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done well. Aunt Polly said that I must paint it with great care." "Oh, please, Tom," begged Ben. "I can do it. I'll be really careful. Just let me try. I'll give you half of my apple. Well, I'll give you all of it!" "Well, all right, Ben," said Tom. "You must be very careful." He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down under the tree, and started to eat Ben's apple. All day, boys came to make fun of Tom, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny offered him a basketball, and so on. By late afternoon Tom had got all kinds of toys, and the fence had got three coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at the painted fence. She was so pleased with Tom's work that she gave Tom a large cake!

1. because he was going to paint the fence
2. his Aunt Polly's
3. because Tom was enjoying himself
4. from Ben
5. because he wanted to paint
6. Tom painted
7. he enjoyed it
8. worried
9. bright and fresh
10. swim
11. three

Numbered questions:
1. Why did Tom have paint?
2. who's fence was it?
3. Why did Ben want to paint the fence?
4. Where did Tom get the apple from?
5. Why did he give it to him?
6. What happened when Ben was tired of painting?
7. How did Tom feel about painting?
8. How did he feel when Ben started to paint?
9. How was the weather?
10. What was Ben planning to do?
11. How many coats did the fence get?

Q: "We're going to move," Jimmy said to Mr. James,her teacher, with tears in her eyes. "Dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house." Pam was walking by and just heard Jimmy's talk with Mr.James. In the lunchroom Pam met Carol and said, "I've got something to tell you about Jimmy." As she started to tell Carol about Jimmy's dad, several other classmates stopped to listen. Pam felt bad telling what she had heard but she went on anyway. After school, Pam saw some of her classmates talking to Jimmy. "Where does your dad work?" one of the boys asked. Jimmy's face turned red. She left without answering. Pam felt terrible, because she didn't mean to hurt Jimmy. And she hadn't thought that some of the classmates would make jokes and laugh at Jimmy about her father's losing the job. Pam didn't know what she could do to help Jimmy.

1. he had to move
2. his dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house.
3. yes
4. PAm
5. the lunchroom
6. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Why was Jimmy crying?
2. What did Jimmy tell her teacher while crying?
3. Did anyone overhear them?
4. Who did?
5. Where were they talking?
6. Did Pam tell Carol anything?

Q: CHAPTER TWENTY.

NEW PLANS--OUR TRAVELLERS JOIN THE FUR-TRADERS, AND SEE MANY STRANGE THINGS--A CURIOUS FIGHT--A NARROW ESCAPE, AND A PRISONER TAKEN.

Not long after the events related in the last chapter, our four friends, Dick, and Joe, and Henri, and Crusoe, agreed to become for a time members of Walter Cameron's band of trappers. Joe joined because one of the objects which the traders had in view was similar to his own mission, namely, the promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes of the mountains and plains to the west. Joe, therefore, thought it a good opportunity of travelling with a band of men who could secure him a favourable hearing from the Indian tribes they might chance to meet with in the course of their wanderings. Besides, as the traders carried about a large supply of goods with them, he could easily replenish his own nearly exhausted pack by hunting wild animals and exchanging their skins for such articles as he might require.

Dick joined because it afforded him an opportunity of seeing the wild, majestic scenery of the Rocky Mountains, and shooting the big-horned sheep which abounded there, and the grizzly "bars," as Joe named them, or "Caleb," as they were more frequently styled by Henri and the other men.

Henri joined because it was agreeable to the inclination of his own rollicking, blundering, floundering, crashing disposition, and because he would have joined anything that had been joined by the other two.

Crusoe's reason for joining was single, simple, easy to be expressed, easy to be understood, and commendable. _He_ joined--because Dick did.

1. four
2. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
3. seeing the Rocky Mountains
4. big-horned sheep
5. it was agreeable to his disposition,
6. Yes
7. promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes
8. the mountains and plains to the west.
9. the traders
10. He_ joined--because Dick did.
11. No
12. hunting wild animals
13. exchanging for articles
14. traders
15. Yes
16. Indian tribes
17. in the course of their wanderings
18. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
19. Henri
20. "bars,"

Numbered questions:
1. How many friends does Joe have?
2. What group did they join?
3. What was Dick's reason for coming into the group?
4. What kind of animals did he was to hunt?
5. Why did Henri join?
6. Would he have followed his friends anyway?
7. What about Joe's reason?
8. In what location?
9. Was someone else planning to do this too?
10. What about Crusoe's reason?
11. Is this hard to understand?
12. How would Joe replace his supplies?
13. What would he do with the skin?
14. With who?
15. Did they have plenty of stuff?
16. Who is Joe hoping to meet with?
17. Where is he hoping to run across them?
18. Who does he think can help him with this?
19. Who has a fun loving personality?
20. What did Joe call bears?