Question: Chapter Fourteen

The Frozen Heart

In the hut of Pon, the gardener's boy, Button-Bright was the first to waken in the morning. Leaving his companions still asleep, he went out into the fresh morning air and saw some blackberries growing on bushes in a field not far away. Going to the bushes he found the berries ripe and sweet, so he began eating them. More bushes were scattered over the fields, so the boy wandered on, from bush to bush, without paying any heed to where he was wandering. Then a butterfly fluttered by. He gave chase to it and followed it a long way. When finally he paused to look around him, Button-Bright could see no sign of Pon's house, nor had he the slightest idea in which direction it lay.

"Well, I'm lost again," he remarked to himself. "But never mind; I've been lost lots of times. Someone is sure to find me."

Trot was a little worried about Button-Bright when she awoke and found him gone. Knowing how careless he was, she believed that he had strayed away, but felt that he would come back in time, because he had a habit of not staying lost. Pon got the little girl some food for her breakfast and then together they went out of the hut and stood in the sunshine.

Pon's house was some distance off the road, but they could see it from where they stood and both gave a start of surprise when they discovered two soldiers walking along the roadway and escorting Princess Gloria between them. The poor girl had her hands bound together, to prevent her from struggling, and the soldiers rudely dragged her forward when her steps seemed to lag. 1. Who was the gardener's son?
2. Where did he go?
3. What did he eat?
4. How did they taste?
5. What insect distracted him?
6. Did he follow it?
7. For how long?
8. Did he get lost?
9. Was he concerned?
10. Why not?
11. Who woke up first?
12. Did he wake everyone else up?
13. Who was worried about him when she woke up?
14. Who served her breakfast?
15. Were they surprised to see someone approaching on the road?
16. Which member of the royalty was there?
17. Who was escorting her?
18. Were they being polite?
19. What was tied?
20. Why? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Button-Bright
2. outside
3. blackberries
4. ripe and sweet
5. butterfly
6. yes
7. a long way
8. yes
9. no
10. He'd been lost lots of times and someone would find him.
11. Button-Bright
12. no
13. Trot
14. Pon
15. yes
16. Princess Gloria
17. two soldiers
18. no
19. her hands
20. to prevent her from struggling

Q: Bristow, Virginia (CNN) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered an investigation after a man who was in the United States illegally killed a nun in a car crash, authorities said.

Napolitano is trying determine why the man was still in the country because he had been arrested two previous times for drunken driving offenses.

The suspect, Carlos Montano, driving Sunday morning under the influence of alcohol, slammed head-on into three nuns in a Toyota sedan, police said. The three were just a few miles from a monastery in Bristow, Virginia, heading for their annual retreat. Sister Denise Mosier was killed instantly, and the other two remained hospitalized Tuesday.

The suspect has twice been in custody -- the first time, almost two years ago in October 2008 -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. But both times, Montano was released on his own recognizance pending deportation proceedings, because he was not convicted of a violent felony such as murder, rape, or robbery.

"He was in removal proceedings," Napolitano told CNN on Tuesday. "Why were the removal proceedings taking so long? I do not obviously as of today have the results of that, but I will get them."

Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, said he was furious with how immigration officials have handled the case.

"We identified him as an illegal alien, we told ICE that he had twice been convicted now of DUI's, that he posed a threat to the community," said Stewart. "And they turned around and they released him right back into the neighborhood."

1. Janet Napolitano
2. Homeland Security Secretary
3. killed a nun in a car crash
4. Carlos Montano
5. unknown
6. yes
7. drunken driving offenses.
8. Three
9. no
10. Bristow, Virginia,
11. no
12. because he was not convicted of a violent felony such as murder, rape, or robbery

Numbered questions:
1. Who ordered the inquiry?
2. What is her job?
3. What did the accused do?
4. What was his name?
5. Is he white?
6. Does he have previous convictions?
7. What were they?
8. How many churchwomen were there?
9. Did they all die?
10. Where were they headed?
11. was this incident taken care of correctly?
12. Why wasnt he deported?

input: (TIME.com) -- Two of Emily Cunningham's three children have food allergies. And protecting her kids is taking toll on the family budget.

When she was nine months old, Cunningham's four-year-old daughter Elena ate a spoonful of yogurt and broke out in hives. Elena is allergic to eggs, tree nuts, dairy and peanuts, and even brief contact with one of the these hard-to-avoid items is all it takes to set off a potentially life-threatening immune reaction.

Cunningham's eight-month-old son Wyatt has a bad dairy allergy too.

In order to keep their kids safe and healthy, Emily Cunningham, a stay-at-home mother from Charlotte, North Carolina who writes the AllergenMenuMom blog, and her husband keep a completely allergy-free home, buying only food products that are free of any trace of their children's triggers.

But that protection comes at a high price. Between breathing medications and epipens of epinephrine, a drug used to treat anaphylactic shock, the Cunninghams spend about $1,000 a month to safeguard their children from their allergies, and that's before the grocery bill. Emily estimates her family spends $80 a month just on rice milk.

TIME.com: How nut allergies made me monogamous

About 4% to 6% of U.S. children under age 18 have food allergies, and the latest statistics show this percentage may be on the rise.

Why so many kids are experiencing allergies to common food items still isn't clear, although experts suspect that some of the trend can be attributed to improved public health and sanitation efforts that may have made us too clean to build strong enough immunity to common allergens found in food and the environment. Kids not eating things like nuts and shellfish at an earlier age may also contribute to the rise in food allergies. 1. How man kids does Emily Cunningham have?
2. Do they have allergies?
3. Does this challenge her?
4. How?
5. Why is this?
6. What do they buy?
7. How much are these?
8. Does she have to spend more than this?
9. On what?
10. How much is that?
11. What are her kids' names?
12. What is Elena allergic to?
13. What about her son?
14. Is this a common problem?
15. How many kids have this problem?
16. Why do people get allergies?
17. Do doctors have any guesses?
18. Like what? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Two
2. Yes.
3. Yes
4. Its taking toll on the family budget.
5. Protection comes at a high price.
6. Breathing medications and epipens of epinephrine
7. About $1,000 a month.
8. Yes
9. The grocery bill.
10. $80 a month just on rice milk.
11. Elena and Wyatt.
12. Eggs, tree nuts, dairy and peanuts.
13. Dairy.
14. Yes
15. 4% to 6% of U.S. children,
16. It isn't clear.
17. Yes
18. Not eating nuts and shellfish an earlier age.