CHAPTER V

OFF FOR WOODCRAFT

Edward Muldoon, otherwise Sparrer, surreptitiously pinched himself to make sure that he was not dreaming. He, newsboy from the lower East Side of New York, who had never been farther from it than Coney Island, riding in a brilliantly lighted Pullman coach on his way into the great woods of which he had dreamed so much since he became a Scout, and of which he had only the vaguest idea! It couldn't be.

And yet it was. The roar of the wheels told him that it was. The very feel of the luxurious seat in which he was sitting told him that it was. And to clinch the fact and at the same time make it harder to believe there were his three companions, Upton, his patrol leader, Harrison and Pat Malone, whom he had secretly made his hero. Yes, it was all true, and yet he couldn't get rid of the idea that sooner or later he would wake up and find it all a beautiful dream.

The fact is, this trip was in the nature of a Christmas present. From their first meeting Pat had taken a great fancy to the street gamin. He recognized a kindred spirit. Instinctively he realized that the difference between Sparrer and himself at the same age was mainly one of environment. The youngster's sturdy independence and self-reliance, his quick wit, even his impudence, struck responsive chords in the young woodsman. Sparrer was what he himself would have been had his nursery been a New York East Side tenement instead of the log cabin of a mill settlement in the lumber district of the North Woods.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Edward Muldoon
2. pinched himself
3. to make sure that he was not dreaming
4. New York
5. the lower East Side
6. He was a newsboy
7. Pat Malone
8. into the great woods
9. a Christmas present
10. Pat
11. Pat had taken a great fancy to him.
12. a log cabin
13. a mill settlement
14. the lumber district
15. the North Woods
16. a Pullman coach
17. his three companions
18. Upton, Harrison, and Pat
19. his patrol leader
20. Coney Island

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Sparrer
2. What did he do?
3. Why?
4. Where did he live?
5. What part?
6. What did he do to make money
7. Who was his secret hero?
8. Where was he going?
9. What was this trip?
10. From who?
11. Why?
12. Where was his nursery?
13. where?
14. in what district?
15. where?
16. What kind of coach were they in?
17. Who was with them also?
18. What were their names?
19. Who was Upton?
20. What is farthest Sparrer had gone before?