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

And these two, as I have told you, Were the friends of Hiawatha, Chibiabos, the musician, And the very strong man, Kwasind. --Hiawatha

Torpenhow was paging the last sheets of some manuscript, while the Nilghai, who had come for chess and remained to talk tactics, was reading through the first part, commenting scornfully the while.

"It's picturesque enough and it's sketchy," said he; "but as a serious consideration of affairs in Eastern Europe, it's not worth much."

"It's off my hands at any rate. . . . Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine slips altogether, aren't there? That should make between eleven and twelve pages of valuable misinformation. Heigh-ho!" Torpenhow shuffled the writing together and hummed--

'Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell, If I'd as much money as I could tell, I never would cry, Young lambs to sell!'"

Dick entered, self-conscious and a little defiant, but in the best of tempers with all the world.

"Back at last?" said Torpenhow.

"More or less. What have you been doing?"

"Work. Dickie, you behave as though the Bank of England were behind you. Here's Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday gone and you haven't done a line. It's scandalous."

"The notions come and go, my children--they come and go like our 'baccy," he answered, filling his pipe. "Moreover," he stooped to thrust a spill into the grate, "Apollo does not always stretch his----Oh, confound your clumsy jests, Nilghai!"

"This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration," said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall. "We believe in cobblers" wax. La!--where you sit down." 1. Who was paging?
2. What was she paging
3. Who came for chess
4. Did he stay
5. why?
6. Was he reading?
7. How was he commenting
8. How does he describe what he reads?
9. Is it worth much?
10. How many slips were there
11. How many pages does that make
12. Who entered?
13. Was he self-conscious
14. How does dickie behave
15. Has he done a line?
numbered_answers: 1. Torpenhow
2. the last sheets of some manuscript
3. the Nilghai
4. yes
5. to talk tactics
6. yes
7. Yes.
8. "It's picturesque enough and it's sketchy,"
9. No
10. thirty-nine
11. between eleven and twelve
12. Dick
13. yes
14. as though the Bank of England were behind
15. no

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

THE WRECK

The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell. Lister did not know the smell; Brown knew and frowned, for he had been broken by the malaria that haunts West African river mouths. Heavy dew dripped from the awnings on _Terrier's_ bridge and in places trickled through the material, since canvas burns in the African sun. Brown searched the dark coast with his glasses, trying to find the marks he had noted on the chart. Lister leaned against the rails and mused about the voyage.

They had ridden out a winter's gale in the Bay of Biscay and for a night had lost the hulk and the men on board. Then they went into Vigo, where Lister's firemen wrecked a wine shop and it cost him much in bribes to save them from jail. He had another taste of their quality at Las Palmas, where they made trouble with the port guards and Brown brawled in the cheap wine shops behind the cathedral. In fact, it was some relief when the captain fell off the steam tram that runs between town and port, and a cut on his head stopped his adventures.

Then they steamed for fourteen-hundred miles before the Northeast Trades, with a misty blue sky overhead and long, white-topped seas rolling up astern. The Trade breeze was cool and bracing, but they lost it near the coast, and now the air was hot and strangely heavy. One felt languid and cheerfulness cost an effort. The men had begun to grumble and Lister was glad the voyage was nearly over and it was time to get to work. 1. What type of weather did they just overcome?
2. Where?
3. Did they lose people during this?
4. Where did they go next?
5. Who wrecked a wine shop?
6. Did they go to jail?
7. What did he have to do to prevent that?
8. Had they caused trouble before?
9. Where?
10. What did they do?
11. Who got in a fight?
12. Where?
13. What were they behind?
14. Was this a stormy night now?
15. Was Brown sick?
16. What did he have?
17. What was he looking for?
18. How far did they travel before the Northeast Trades?
19. Was the wind hot?
20. What was Lister happy about?
numbered_answers:
1. a winter's gale
2. in the Bay of Biscay
3. Yes
4. into Vigo
5. Lister's firemen
6. No
7. it cost him much in bribes
8. Yes
9. at Las Palmas,
10. made trouble with the port guards
11. Brown
12. in the cheap wine shops
13. the cathedral.
14. No
15. Yes
16. malaria
17. his glasses
18. 1400 miles
19. No
20. He was glad the voyage was nearly over