question: CHAPTER XVII.

THREE PRISONERS.

It did not take Joe and Darry long to retrace their steps at the water-course. They continued to call to the young captain, and once Joe shot off his rifle as a signal, but, as we know, no answer came back.

"I can't understand this at all," said Joe, when they halted near the shelter. "I didn't hear him do any firing, did you?"

"Not a shot," answered Darry. "He must have gone away from the brook instead of along the bank."

The two boys hung around the shelter for some time, and then decided to follow up the trail left by the young officer.

This was easy for part of the distance, but soon the footprints became so indistinct that they came to another halt.

"Stumped!" muttered Joe. "We might as well go back to the shelter and wait till he returns. One thing is certain, he hasn't found any game, or we would have heard the firing."

Tired by their long tramp the boys sat down in the shelter, thinking that Captain Moore would return at any moment.

Thus an hour was passed. It was now noon, and Joe and Darry set to work to prepare dinner for themselves.

The repast was just finished when Joe let out a cry of alarm.

"Matt Gilroy!"

He was right. The captain of the desperadoes had appeared, followed by several others.

The boys were taken completely off their guard. Darry made a clutch for his rifle, but on the instant Gilroy had him covered.
1. what is the title of the chapter?
2. what are the names of the two boys?
3. why did Joe shoot his rifle?
4. how many times did he do it?
5. did they get an answer?
6. where did they halt?
7. and could Joe understand what was going on?
8. where did Darry think he had gone?
9. instead of?
10. what did they do for a while?
11. and after that?
12. why did they decided to go back to the shelter?
13. what were they sure he hadn't found?
14. and how did they determine this?
15. who are they looking for?
16. what made them get tired?
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answer: 1. THREE PRISONERS
2. Joe and Darry
3. as a signal
4. once
5. no
6. near the shelter
7. No
8. away from the brook
9. along the bank
10. hung around the shelter
11. decided to follow up the trail left
12. the footprints became indistinct
13. game
14. they would have heard the firing
15. Captain Moore
16. their long tramp

question: CHAPTER XXXV.

Were uneasiness of conscience measured by extent of crime, human history had been different, and one should look to see the contrivers of greedy wars and the mighty marauders of the money-market in one troop of self-lacerating penitents with the meaner robber and cut-purse and the murderer that doth his butchery in small with his own hand. No doubt wickedness hath its rewards to distribute; but who so wins in this devil's game must needs be baser, more cruel, more brutal than the order of this planet will allow for the multitude born of woman, the most of these carrying a form of conscience--a fear which is the shadow of justice, a pity which is the shadow of love--that hindereth from the prize of serene wickedness, itself difficult of maintenance in our composite flesh.

On the twenty-ninth of December Deronda knew that the Grandcourts had arrived at the Abbey, but he had had no glimpse of them before he went to dress for dinner. There had been a splendid fall of snow, allowing the party of children the rare pleasures of snow-balling and snow-building, and in the Christmas holidays the Mallinger girls were content with no amusement unless it were joined in and managed by "cousin," as they had always called Deronda. After that outdoor exertion he had been playing billiards, and thus the hours had passed without his dwelling at all on the prospect of meeting Gwendolen at dinner. Nevertheless that prospect was interesting to him; and when, a little tired and heated with working at amusement, he went to his room before the half-hour bell had rung, he began to think of it with some speculation on the sort of influence her marriage with Grandcourt would have on her, and on the probability that there would be some discernible shades of change in her manner since he saw her at Diplow, just as there had been since his first vision of her at Leubronn.
1. When did the Grandcourts get to the Abbey?
2. Did he see them before he changed his clothes?
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answer: 1. the twenty-ninth of December
2. No

question: Paris has the Eiffel Tower; New York has the Statue of Liberty; and prefix = st1 /Brussels, the Manneken Piss.

Think of the Belgian capital and, if anything, you think of the small peeing boy _ a 60-meter-high bronze figure standing on a block, supplying a constant stream of water to the basin under him.

Some might laugh. But for Jacques Stroobants, the statue is up there with the best of them.

"I'm proud of him. People come from all around the world to see him," says 60-year-old Stroobants with a fatherly glance at the little boy.

As the most famous landmark of Brussels, Manneken Piss has a very special place in the heart of Belgians.

The original Manneken Piss dates back to 1388, but the statue tourists see today dates from 1619 when the city built a second one after the original was destroyed.

Many stories go round Manneken Piss. Nobody knows why he was made. One story is that he saved Brusselsby putting out the flames of a deadly fire with his well-aimed piss. But the most believable story is that the boy, the son of a wealthy man, was kidnapped. The father had a statue built in honor of the way his son was found-peeing against a tree.

Perhaps best-known for his naked beauty, the "peeing boy" has also been clothed in some of the finest clothes money can buy.

Stroobants has been changing his clothes for the last 29 years. On average, he has clothes on 300 days a year. And on special days, he pees beer.

A few of the ways he's been dressed are; a football player, Mozart and an army general. Now, he has more than 600 pieces of clothes.

There is no strict charge for those wishing to provide clothes for the little boy. But certain conditions must be met.

"The clothes cannot include either advertising or political message," said Stroobants, because they would cheapen the national treasure.

But Manneken Piss is still something local people can make money from _ by selling all kinds of souvenirs.
1. where is the statue?
2. what is it called?
3. how many clothes does he have?
4. is the statue still original?
5. when was the original built?
6. how many days is he dressed?
7. for how long has this been happening?
8. what is the statue?
9. when was the current one made?
10. how tall is the statue?
11. is it famous?
12. who is proud of it?
13. how old is he?
14. what happened to the original one?
15. does anybody know why it is as it is?
16. is there a charge for the clothing?
17. what should the clothing not have?
18. why?
19. do people make money off of it?
20. how?
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answer:
1. Brussels
2. Manneken Piss
3. more than 600 pieces
4. No
5. 1388
6. 300 days a year.
7. last 29 years
8. small peeing boy
9. 1619
10. 60-meter
11. Yes
12. Jacques Stroobants
13. 60
14. destroyed.
15. No
16. There is no strict charge
17. either advertising or political message
18. they would cheapen the national treasure
19. Yes
20. by selling souvenirs.