Q: CHAPTER SIXTEEN.

LINCH-PINS.

"And leave them laughing, Ho! Ho Ho!"--_Robin Goodfellow_.

Notice was sent from the Bishop of the diocese that he was about to hold a Confirmation at Poppleby in six weeks' time. This was matter of rejoicing to Mr Harford, who had mourned over the very few communicants. Before he came the Celebrations had been only three times a year, and were attended by most of the aged paupers. To the joy of the Carbonels, the feast was monthly after his coming; but the first time the aged people were there, and all lingered, George Hewlett, the clerk, said, when the curate looked to him for information--

"The alms, sir. They be waiting for the money in the plate."

"Why, that is to be reserved for sick and distressed."

"Mr Selby, he always give it out to them, and so did Mr Jones afore him, sir. They be all expecting of it."

Mr Harford thought that it might be best not to disappoint the old people suddenly, so he stood at the vestry door counting heads, and numbering among them two whom he had already been somewhat startled to see present themselves, namely, Dame Spurrell, whom he had heard abusing her neighbour with a torrent of foul words, and who pretended to be a witch, and Tom Jarrold, whom Hewlett had described to him as the wickedest old chap in the parish.

He took counsel with the churchwardens, Farmers Goodenough and Rawson, who both agreed that they were a bad lot, who didn't deserve nothing, but it helped to keep down the rates. Then he talked to Captain Carbonel, who, being a reverent man, was dismayed at what he heard.

1. the Bishop of the diocese
2. hold a Confirmation
3. yes
4. in six weeks
5. Mr Harford
6. he had mourned over the very few communicants.
7. three times a year
8. most of the aged paupers
9. monthly
10. yes
11. the Carbonels
12. yes
13. yes
14. Mr Harford
15. at the vestry door
16. yes
17. two
18. yes
19. the churchwardens, Farmers Goodenough and Rawson
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who sent the message?
2. What he was going to do?
3. Is ther any timframe?
4. When?
5. Who felt happy about that?
6. What he did beforehand?
7. How many times he went there?
8. Who accompanied him?
9. How often was the feast?
10. Anyone happy about that?
11. Who was that?
12. Were some folks very new to all these?
13. Were there any beggers?
14. Who did not want to upset the folks?
15. Where was he?
16. Did he recognize someone?
17. How many of them he recognize by name?
18. Did he consult anyone?
19. Who were they?
20. Were they in the same page in this issue?

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

HAROLD APPEARS IN A NEW CHARACTER, AND TWO OLD CHARACTERS REAPPEAR TO HAROLD.

The mind of Yambo was a strange compound--a curious mixture of gravity and rollicking joviality; at one time displaying a phase of intense solemnity; at another exhibiting quiet pleasantry and humour, but earnestness was the prevailing trait of his character. Whether indulging his passionate fondness for the jumping-jack, or engaged in guiding the deliberations of his counsellors, the earnest chief was equally devoted to the work in hand. Being a savage--and, consequently, led entirely by feeling, which is perhaps the chief characteristic of savage, as distinguished from civilised, man,--he hated his enemies with exceeding bitterness, and loved his friends with all his heart.

Yambo was very tender to Harold during his illness, and the latter felt corresponding gratitude, so that there sprang up between the two a closer friendship than one could have supposed to be possible, considering that they were so different from each other, mentally, physically, and socially, and that their only mode of exchanging ideas was through the medium of a very incompetent interpreter.

Among other things Harold discovered that his friend the chief was extremely fond of anecdotes and stories. He, therefore, while in a convalescent state and unable for much physical exercise, amused himself, and spent much of his time, in narrating to him the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Yambo's appetite for mental food increased, and when Crusoe's tale was finished he eagerly demanded more. Some of his warriors also came to hear, and at last the hut was unable to contain the audiences that wished to enter. Harold, therefore, removed to an open space under a banyan-tree, and there daily, for several hours, related all the tales and narratives with which he was acquainted, to the hundreds of open-eyed and open-mouthed negroes who squatted around him. 1. Who was helpful when Harold was sick?
2. What did he feel?
3. Did something spring up?
4. What?
5. Were they alike?
6. How did they differ?
7. How else?
8. And?
9. How did they communicate?
10. Was he competent?
11. What did Yambo do?
12. How was his mind?
13. Who did he love?
14. Which people did he love?
15. How much?
16. Who did he hate?
17. How badly?
18. Who had an adventure?
19. Where did Harold move to?
20. How many heard the stories?
numbered_answers: 1. Yambo
2. gratitude
3. yes
4. a friendship
5. no
6. mentally
7. physically
8. socially
9. an interpreter.
10. no
11. he was a chief
12. it was a strange compound
13. anecdotes and stories
14. his friends
15. with all his heart
16. his enemies
17. with exceeding bitterness
18. Robinson Crusoe
19. an open space under a banyan-tree
20. hundreds

(CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game.

Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal.

"I knew nothing," Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday. "I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer. I knew nothing."

Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall. "In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong," he said.

"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know," he said. "But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that."

Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.

"The four of us are so close," she told TV3. "Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself. You know, it's just, that's the way it is."

Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his "irresponsible and selfish" behavior, which he said included infidelity.

The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November. The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who interviewed Tiger Woods?
2. Who is Williams wifE?
3. When was his first public appearance after he crashed?
4. What was he driving when he crashed?
5. What type of allegations was made about him?
Answer:
1. unknown
2. Kirsty
3. The February 19
4. a Cadillac Escalade
5. infidelity allegations