question: Chapter XXIV.

"March--march--march! Making sounds as they tread, Ho-ho! how they step, Going down to the dead."

Coxe.

The time Maud consumed in her meditations over the box and its contents, had been employed by the captain in preparations for his enterprise. Joyce, young Blodget, Jamie and Mike, led by their commander in person, were to compose the whole force on the occasion; and every man had been busy in getting his arms, ammunition and provisions ready, for the last half-hour. When captain Willoughby, therefore, had taken leave of his family, he found the party in a condition to move.

The first great desideratum was to quit the Hut unseen. Joel and his followers were still at work, in distant fields; but they all carefully avoided that side of the Knoll which would have brought them within reach of the musket, and this left all behind the cliff unobserved, unless Indians were in the woods in that direction. As Mike had so recently passed in by that route, however, the probability was the whole party still remained in the neighbourhood of the mills, where all accounts agreed in saying they mainly kept. It was the intention of the captain, therefore, to sally by the rivulet and the rear of the house, and to gain the woods under cover of the bushes on the banks of the former, as had already been done by so many since the inroad.

The great difficulty was to quit the house, and reach the bed of the stream, unseen. This step, however, was a good deal facilitated by means of Joel's sally-port, the overseer having taken, himself, all the precautions against detection of which the case well admitted. Nevertheless, there was the distance between the palisades and the base of the rocks, some forty or fifty yards, which was entirely uncovered, and had to be passed under the notice of any wandering eyes that might happen to be turned in that quarter. After much reflection, the captain and serjeant came to the conclusion to adopt the following mode of proceeding.
1. Who was still working?
2. Where at?
3. The entire area?
4. Where didn't they go?
5. Why?
6. Where did the lead want to get to?
7. In what way?
8. Who spent time thinking about what was in a package?
9. How many people were going on patrol?
10. And they were?
11. How long had they been preparing?
12. What were they getting prepared?
13. Who was leaving his relatives?
14. Was everyone ready to go then?
15. Was it easy to be sneaky?
16. What amount of space was open?
17. What was to either side of the space?
18. Did they decide to risk it?
19. How many people decided?
20. And they were?
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answer: 1. Joel and his followers
2. in distant fields
3. no
4. the side of the Knoll
5. it would have brought them within reach of the musket
6. the woods
7. under cover of the bushes
8. Maud
9. Five
10. Joyce, young Blodget, Jamie, Mike and their commander
11. the last half-hour
12. arms, ammunition and provisions ready
13. captain Willoughby
14. yes
15. no
16. forty or fifty yards
17. the palisades and the base of the rocks
18. yes
19. two
20. the captain and serjeant

question: CHAPTER III.

FRANCO

Franco followed the boys all that forenoon, as they went back and forth for their wood. At dinner, they did not say any thing about him to the farmer, because they supposed that he would go away, when they came in and left him, and that they should see no more of him in the afternoon. But when Jonas went out, after dinner, to get the old General, to harness him for work again, he found Franco lying snugly in the General's stall, under the crib.

At night, therefore, he told the farmer about him. The farmer said that he was some dog that had strayed away from his master; and he told Jonas to go out after supper and drive him away. Josey begged his uncle to keep him, but his aunt said she would not have a dog about the house. She said it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep, and that, instead of bringing them a good fleece, a dog was good for nothing, but to track your floors in wet weather, and keep you awake all night with his howling.

So the farmer told Jonas to go out after supper, and drive the dog away.

"Let us give him some supper first, father," said Oliver.

"No," said his father; "the more you give him, the more he won't go away. I expect now, you've fooled with him so much, that it will be hard to get him off, at any rate."
1. Who is Franco?
2. Did he live at his home?
3. What did the farmer want to do with him?
4. Did anyone want to keep the dog?
5. Who?
6. What did his aunt think?
7. why not?
8. would the dog be useful?
9. Did Oliver want to make the dog leave immediately?
10. What did he want to do first?
11. Did Oliver's fatehr agree with this idea?
12. Why did he think it would be a problem?
13. When was Franco following the boys?
14. Did they tell the farmer immediately?
15. Why not?
16. Was the dog gone after dinner?
17. Where was he?
18. Who found him there?
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answer: 1. A dog
2. No
3. Drive him away
4. Yes
5. Josey
6. she didn't want to have a dog about the house
7. it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep
8. no
9. No
10. Give him some supper
11. No
12. Because the more you give him, the more he won't go away.
13. all that forenoon
14. No
15. because they supposed that he would go away
16. No
17. in the General's stall, under the crib.
18. Jonas

question: Omoa, Honduras (CNN)Alexis Gonzalez walks slowly and with some hesitation, using the outside wall of his house for balance.

"I'm getting used to the prosthesis," the 16-year-old says. He tries to smile, but an expression of sadness quickly returns to his face.

When he was 15, Gonzalez made a decision that would forever change his life -- to leave Omoa, an impoverished village in Honduras -- with dreams of getting to the United States.

At the end of the trek -- about 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) across Mexico and Guatemala -- he saw hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home.

"Sometimes we don't even have food to eat and I also wanted to get a higher education," Gonzalez says.

His mother was singlehandedly raising nine children, working odd jobs in restaurants and the nearby fields. They lived in a single room, an adobe house with dirt floors built on a steep and muddy hill. Chickens being raised for food roamed around the structure. Gonzalez says his father left the family when he was little boy.

When Gonzalez left in January 2014, he didn't ask his mother for permission. He only left a letter telling her about his plans. "I wouldn't have let him go," his mother Mercedes Melendez says. "When he left I went looking for him everywhere." She even went to Corinto on the Honduras-Guatemala border to ask authorities if they had seen him, she says.

Gonzalez says he traveled by land through Honduras and Guatemala with a teenage cousin. They took the bus and also walked and hitch-hiked in some places.
1. Who is the article about?
2. How old is he?
3. Where's he from?
4. Where did he want to go?
5. Why?
6. What was his home like?
7. When did he leave?
8. What was the date?
9. Did he go alone?
10. Who went with him?
11. Did his family approve?
12. Who did he live with?
13. Who else?
14. What happened to his dad?
15. Where was he?
16. Did the trip go well?
17. How do we know?
18. What does he have to use?
19. How far was the journey?
20. What transportation did they use?
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answer:
1. Alexis Gonzalez
2. 16
3. Omoa
4. United States
5. hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home
6. impoverished
7. When he was 15
8. January 2014
9. no
10. teenage cousin
11. no
12. nine children
13. His mother
14. his father
15. his father left
16. no
17. expression of sadness
18. the prosthesis
19. 2,500 kilometers
20. the bus