Q: CHAPTER XIV.

OVER THE MOUNTAIN TOP.

Darry was much alarmed, and with good reason. Never before had he faced such a snake, and the reptile looked ready to spring upon him at any instant.

What to do the boy did not know, yet instinctively he leaped back to the top of the rock. Then the fish gave a jerk which almost took him from his feet.

"Joe! Will!" he shouted. "Come this way! I'm in a pickle!"

"What's the matter?" shouted Captain Moore, and soon he and his brother were coming forward as quickly as they could.

In the meantime Darry was having his hands full, for the big fish was bound to get away. At the bottom of the rock lay the snake, with head raised and mouth wide open. Its eyes shone like diamonds.

"A snake! Kill it!" shrieked Darry.

"A snake?" echoed Joe. "Where?"

"At the bottom of this big rock. Oh, my, he's going to come up!"

"I see him," put in Captain Moore.

As he spoke the snake made a leap for the top of the rock. As the reptile went up, Darry went down, and ran along the brook's edge, still with his fishing-pole in his hand.

Catching up a sharp stone, Captain Moore flung it at the snake, hitting the reptile in the tail. At once the thing whirled around, and now forgetting Darry it turned on its assailant.

"He's coming for you!" ejaculated Joe. "Run, Will, or you'll be bitten sure!"

"I'm not running from a snake," answered the young officer, and in a trice he whipped out his pistol. As the snake came on he let drive. His aim was true, and the snake dropped with its head half severed from its body.

1. the fish jerking
2. yes
3. Joe and Will.
4. A snake
5. No
6. It jumped to the top of the rock
7. Threw a rock at it
8. Yes
9. whirled around
10. Joe
11. No
12. Pulled out his gun
13. No
14. Will Shot it
15. Yes
16. Half severed head.
17. Darry
18. Yes
19. brothers
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What made him unsteady?
2. Did he know what to do about it?
3. Who came to help?
4. What was at the bottom of the rock?
5. Was it still?
6. What did it do?
7. How did the Captain react?
8. Did it hit it?
9. What did the snake do?
10. Who warned will?
11. Did he listen to him?
12. What was his response?
13. Did anyone get bit?
14. Why not?
15. Was it gruesome?
16. How so?
17. Who was in a pickle?
18. Are Joe and Will related?
19. How?
20. Was there cause for someone to be alarmed?

Q: Linda and Betty were both twenty years old. They studied in the same medical college. In June, after a school year was over, they decided to take a vacation in the country. They went to several towns and villages, and visited some places of interest, saw and heard a lot of interesting things. They enjoyed themselves very much. One afternoon, they were going to stay overnight in a small town. It was too hot to go further and they wished they could find a river and swim in the cool water. They were driving the car slowly while they were looking around. Suddenly Linda saw a lake not far away. They drove there fast and stopped the car by the lake. They looked around and found a man was sitting on a stone and fishing there. When they took their clothes and were going to jump into the water, the man came up to them and shouted," Sorry, Madams' swimming is not allowed in the lake!" "Why didn't you tell us about it before we took off our clothes?" Betty said angrily. "But it isn't to take off clothes by the lake," said the man.

1. twenty
2. In June
3. yes
4. swimming
5. angry
6. yes
7. medical college
8. yes
9. overnight
10. find a river and swim in the cool water
11. a lake
12. not far away
13. Linda
14. fishing
15. swimming is not allowed in the lake

Numbered questions:
1. How hold were the two women?
2. When did school end?
3. According the the man, was disrobing allowed?
4. What wasn't?
5. How did Betty feel about what happened at the lake?
6. Did the woman attend the same school?
7. What type of school did they attend together?
8. Did they wish to extend their stay in the small town?
9. By how long?
10. What did want to do at the town?
11. What body of water did the find?
12. Where was the lake?
13. Which one of the women's noticed it?
14. What was the man doing when they approached?
15. What was he sorry about?

Q: (CNN) -- Ariel Castro used the promise of a puppy to lure Michelle Knight into the Cleveland home where he held her hostage for 11 years.

"He tells me, 'Just come in for a little while. The puppies are upstairs. You can take one home to your son,'" Knight said in an interview broadcast Tuesday on the syndicated "Dr. Phil" talk show.

But she soon realized there were no puppies inside Castro's home. And it wasn't long, Knight said, before he trapped her in an upstairs room and tied her up with an extension cord. From there, he took her down into the basement about 24 hours later, she said.

It was the beginning of more than a decade of torture, rape, starvation and beatings for Knight. The hope of seeing her son again, she said, inspired her fight to survive.

"I want my son to know me as a victor, not a victim," Knight told host Dr. Phil McGraw. "And I wanted him to know that I survived, loving him. His love got me through."

Castro lured Knight into his vehicle from a Family Dollar store in Cleveland in 2002, promising to give her a ride. She was the first of three women he would capture and imprison in his home for about a decade. They were freed in May after one of the women, Amanda Berry, called out to neighbors for help.

In August, Castro was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years after he pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including murder and kidnapping. He committed suicide in his prison cell in September.

1. with puppies
2. Michelle Knight
3. into his home
4. about a decade.
5. 937
6. murder
7. kidnapping
8. \life in prison plus 1,000 years
9. In August
10. torture, rape, starvation and beatings
11. yes
12. The hope of seeing her son again
13. an extension cord.
14. \Dr. Phil
15. got her through."
16. a puppy
17. a ride
18. 2002,
19. Cleveland
20. three

Numbered questions:
1. How'd Castro lure someone?
2. Who'd he lure?
3. Where'd he lure her to?
4. How long did he keep her?
5. How many counts did he plead guilty to?
6. What was one of the counts?
7. What was the other?
8. How long was his sentence?
9. When was he sentenced?
10. What did Casto spend a decade doing to Knight?
11. Did she fight to survive?
12. Why?
13. What'd Castro use to tie her up with?
14. What show did she appear on?
15. What did her son's love do for Knight?
16. What had Castro promised to give Knight?
17. What else?
18. When?
19. Where?
20. How many other women were there?