Question:
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The death of a teenage girl in a Welsh village in an apparent copycat suicide has raised fears she may have been part of an Internet death cult already blamed for the deaths of six young men.

Natasha Randall, 17, who was found hanged in her bedroom in Blaengarw, near Bridgend, south Wales, on Thursday, was the seventh person believed to have killed themselves in the local area in the past 12 months, the UK's Press Association reported.

Police are examining Randall's computer after the teenager posted messages on a social networking site, Bebo, prior to her death dedicated to 20-year-old Liam Clarke, who was found hanged in a Bridgend park last month.

The message read: "RIP Clarky boy!! gonna miss ya! always remember the gd times! love ya x. Me too!"

Messages have also been posted on Randall's page since her death, PA said. "RIP tash - can't believe you done it!" one said. Another read: "Heyaa Babe. Just Poppin In To Say I Let My Balloon Off With A Message On It, Hope You Got It Ok And It Made You Laugh Up There."

Five more men aged between 17 and 27 have been found hanged in the area since January 2007.

Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, Liam Clarke's father, Kevin Clarke, said the seven who had killed themselves appeared to have known each other.

"We don't know if it is some weird cult or copycat suicides or if they have had some bizarre pact to kill themselves," Clarke said.
1. How old was Natasha Randall?
2. Did she die?
3. Did she die?
4. From what?
5. Where?
6. In what town?
7. When did this happen?
8. How many people have done this in the past year?
9. According to who?
10. What is to blame?
11. Which social network site was this on?
12. Have there been messages posted on Randall's page?
13. What are the ages of the people who have died?
14. When did this start?
15. Who is Liam Clarke's father?
16. Who did he speak to?
17. Did the people who did this know each other?
18. Which newspaper did he talk to?

Numbered answers:
1. 17
2. suicide
3. yes
4. hung herself
5. her bedroom
6. Blaengarw
7. Thursday
8. 7th
9. UK's Press Association
10. an Internet death cult
11. Bebo
12. yes
13. 17 to 27
14. January 2007.
15. Kevin Clarke
16. the newspaper,
17. yes
18. Daily Mail

Question:
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CHAPTER I

ANDY AND HIS UNCLE

"What be you a-goin' to do today, Andy?"

"I'm going to try my luck over to the Storburgh camp, Uncle Si. I hardly think Mr. Storburgh will have an opening for me, but it won't hurt to ask him."

"Did you try Sam Hickley, as I told you to?" continued Josiah Graham, as he settled himself more comfortably before the open fireplace of the cabin.

"Yes, but he said he had all the men he wanted." Andy Graham gave something of a sigh. "Seems to me there are more lumbermen in this part of Maine than there is lumber."

"Humph! I guess you ain't tried very hard to git work," grumbled the old man, drawing up his bootless feet on the rungs of his chair, and spreading out his hands to the generous blaze before him. "Did you see them Plover brothers?"

"No, but Chet Greene did, day before yesterday, and they told him they were laying men off instead of taking 'em on."

"Humph! I guess thet Chet Greene don't want to work. He'd rather fool his time away in the woods, huntin' and fishin'."

"Chet is willing enough to work if he can get anything to do. And hunting pays, sometimes. Last week he got a fine deer and one of the rich hunters from Boston paid him a good price for it."

"Humph! Thet ain't as good as a stiddy, payin' job. I don't want you to be a-lazin' your time away in the woods,--I want you to grow up stiddy an' useful. Besides, we got to have money, if we want to live."
1. Who is Andy's Uncle?
2. What is Andy trying to find?
3. Who will he talk to today?
4. Does he believe he'll be successful?
5. What state is he in?
6. Who else did he talk to about a job?
7. What is his uncle's full name?
8. Who didn't have any openings?
9. In what field?
10. Who else did his uncle want him to talk to?
11. Had he?
12. Who had?
13. When?
14. Were they hiring?
15. What did his uncle think Chet liked to do?
16. Did he think that was a good way to make a living?
17. Had Chet made some money doing it?
18. What did he sell?
19. Where?
20. For how much?

Numbered answers:
1. Si
2. a job
3. Mr. Storburgh
4. No
5. Maine
6. Chet Greene
7. Josiah Graham
8. Sam Hickley
9. lumber
10. Plover brothers
11. No
12. Chet Greene
13. day before yesterday
14. No
15. huntin and fishin
16. no
17. yes
18. deer
19. Boston
20. good price

Question:
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Even at school there had been an unhealthy competition between George and Richard.

"I'll be the first millionaire in Coleford!" Richard used to boast.

"And you'll be sorry that you knew me," George would reply "because I'll surely be the best lawyer in our town!"

After graduation, George never became a lawyer and Richard was anybody but a millionaire .... Instead, it happened that both men opened bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street, while it was hard to make much money from books then, which made the competition between them worse. Eventually, Richard closed down his, dreaming of making a fortune elsewhere.

Now, with only one bookshop in the town, business was better for George. But sometimes he sat in his narrow old kitchen and gazed out of the dirty window, thinking about his former rival . Perhaps he missed him?

George was very interested in old dictionaries, and he had recently found a collector in Australia who was selling a rare first edition. When the parcel arrived, the book was in perfect condition and George was quite delighted. But while he was having lunch, George glanced at the photo in the newspaper that the book had been wrapped in. He was astonished -- the smiling face was older than he remembered but unmistakable! Trembling, George started reading: "Bookends Company has bought ten bookstores from its competitors. The company, owned by multi-millionaire Richard Pike, is now the largest bookseller in this country."
1. Who always competed?
2. Was it healthy?
3. What did George find great interest in?
4. Did he ever find someone who collected them?
5. From where?
6. What did he have?
7. A common one?
8. Who thought they would have millions of dollars?
9. Did he?
10. How many of them ended up with a bookstore?
11. Where were they located?
12. Were they very successful?
13. Why not?
14. Who quit first?
15. Did this make the other one very happy in the long run?
16. What was the uncommon package he received covered in?
17. What did he notice was on it?
18. Of whom?
19. Was it his obituary?
20. What was it then?
Numbered answers:
1. George and Richard
2. no
3. old dictionaries
4. yes
5. Australia
6. a first edition
7. No
8. Richard
9. no
10. Both
11. Coleford High Street
12. no
13. hard to make much money from books
14. Richard
15. Yes
16. newspaper
17. a photo
18. Richard
19. No
20. A story about a bookseller.