Q: CHAPTER VI

THE FUN OF A NIGHT

"My gracious, Plum acts as if he was scared to death," observed Phil, after the bully and his companion had departed, leaving the others a clear field.

"He certainly was worked up," returned Dave. "I wonder what he'll have to say to-morrow?"

There was no answering that question, and the two boys hurried to where they had left Sam without attempting to reach a conclusion. They found their chum watching out anxiously.

"Well?" came from his lips as soon as he saw them.

"It's all right," answered Dave, and told as much as he deemed necessary. "Come, we must hurry, or Job Haskers will get back before we can fix things."

"This ram is going to be something to handle," observed Phil. "No 'meek as a lamb' about him."

"I'll show you how to do the trick," answered the boy from the country, and with a dexterous turn of the horns, threw the ram over on one side. "Now sit on him, until I tie his legs with the straps."

In a few minutes Dave had the animal secured, and the blanket was placed over the ram's head, that he might not make too much noise. Then they hoisted their burden up between them and started toward the Hall.

It was no easy matter to get the ram upstairs and into Job Haskers' room. On the upper landing they were met by Roger and Buster Beggs, who declared the coast clear. Once in the room of the assistant teacher, they cleared out the bottom of the closet and then, releasing the animal from his bonds, thrust him inside and shut and locked the door, leaving the key in the lock.

Answer the following questions:
1. what was dave wondering?
2. what did Sam say when he saw them?
3. who are they afraid will return before they fix things?
4. was it easy to get the ram upstairs?
5. where were they trying to put it?
6. who was acting scared to death?
7. how much did Dave tell Sam?
8. who showed them how to catch the ram?
9. what instructions did he give?
10. did Dave and Phil take their time returning to Sam?
11. how was Sam acting when they reached him?
12. what did the country boy do to the ram?
13. why did Dave cover the animals head?
14. who meet them on the landing?
15. what did they tell them?
16. what did they do with the key?
17. whos room were they in?
18. who is he?
19. what did they do to the closet?
20. what did Phil say about the ram?
A: 1. what he'll have to say to-morrow
2. Well?
3. Job Haskers
4. no
5. in the closet
6. Plum
7. as much as he deemed necessary.
8. the boy from the country
9. Now sit on him, until I tie his legs with the straps
10. no
11. watching out anxiously
12. hrew the ram over on one side.
13. so that he might not make too much noise
14. Roger and Buster
15. the coast was clear
16. left it in the lock
17. Job Haskers
18. the assistant teacher,
19. cleared it out
20. No 'meek as a lamb' about him.
Q: CHAPTER VIII: PASSING THE OUBLIETTE

Who can describe the dreariness of being snowed-up all the winter with such a mother-in-law as Freiherrinn Kunigunde?

Yet it was well that the snow came early, for it was the best defence of the lonely castle from any attack on the part of the Schlangenwaldern, the Swabian League, or the next heir, Freiherr Kasimir von Adlerstein Wildschloss. The elder Baroness had, at least, the merit of a stout heart, and, even with her sadly-reduced garrison, feared none of them. She had been brought up in the faith that Adlerstein was impregnable, and so she still believed; and, if the disaster that had cut off her husband and son was to happen at all, she was glad that it had befallen before the homage had been paid. Probably the Schlangenwald Count knew how tough a morsel the castle was like to prove, and Wildschloss was serving at a distance, for nothing was heard of either during the short interval while the roads were still open. During this time an attempt had been made through Father Norbert to ascertain what had become of the corpses of the two Barons and their followers, and it had appeared that the Count had carried them all off from the inn, no doubt to adorn his castle with their limbs, or to present them to the Emperor in evidence of his zeal for order. The old Baron could not indeed have been buried in consecrated ground, nor have masses said for him; but for the weal of her son's soul Dame Kunigunde gave some of her few ornaments, and Christina added her gold earrings, and all her scanty purse, that both her husband and father might be joined in the prayers of the Church--trying with all her might to put confidence in Hugh Sorel's Loretto relic, and the Indulgence he had bought, and trusting with more consolatory thoughts to the ever stronger dawnings of good she had watched in her own Eberhard.

Answer the following questions:
1. Name one of the possible attackers of the castle?
2. And another?
3. Was the Baroness afraid of any of them?
4. Even though what had been reduced ?
5. Do you think that the narrator's mother-in-law is the Baroness?
6. And what do you think Adlerstein is?
7. When did the snow start this year?
8. So what was the greatest thing that defended the castle?
9. Which Dame is mentioned in the story?
10. Did she give something?
11. What did she give?
12. Anything else?
13. Did anyone else give something?
14. Who was that?
15. How many Barons were lost?
16. Was anyone lost?
17. What was the full name of the next heir?
18. Who was it that they asked about the location of the bodies?
19. And what was the guess about that?
20. And what else Mmight the Count have done with them?
A:
1. the Swabian League
2. Schlangenwaldern
3. No
4. garrison
5. Yes
6. the next heir
7. the snow came early
8. the snow
9. Christina
10. yes
11. gold earrings
12. all her scanty purse
13. yes
14. Kunigunde
15. two
16. The old Baron
17. Freiherr Kasimir von Adlerstein Wildschloss.
18. Father Norbert
19. that the Count had carried them all off
20. adorn his castle with their limbs,