A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shining car. "Is this your car, sir?" he asked. Paul answered, "Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was surprised, "You mean your brother gave it to you and it did cost you nothing? Sir, I wish..." He hesitated . Paul thought of course he knew what the boy wanted, but what the boy said surprised him greatly. "I wish, " the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that. " Paul looked at the boy in surprise, and then he said again, "Would you like to take a ride in my car?" "Oh yes, I'd love to." The boy answered. After a short ride, the boy turned with his eyes shining and said, "Sir, would you mind driving in front of my house?" Paul smiled a little. He thought he know what the boy wanted, He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked. He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He Was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat down on the step and pointed to the car. "There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent . And some day I'm going to give you one just like it... then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas window- that I've been trying to tell you about." Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed elder brother climbed in beside him and the three began an unforgettable holiday ride.[:Zxxk.Com] What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was crippled?
2. How much did the car cost?
3. How much did he pay for the car?
4. Why?
5. What is the name of the urchin's brother?
6. Where did Paul put him?
7. Where in the auto did he put the lame boy?
8. How many went for a ride?
9. What kind of window was it?
10. What question did he ask?
11. How many steps were there?
12. When will Buddy be given a car?
Answer: 1. Paul's brother Buddy
2. A lot.
3. Nothing.
4. l received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present.
5. Buddy
6. On the steps.
7. Front seat of the car.
8. All three of them.
9. Christmas window
10. "Is this your car, sir?"
11. 2 steps
12. Someday

CHAPTER XII

THE ELECTION FOR OFFICERS

On the following morning all of the cadets but Harry Moss appeared in the messroom.

"Joe Davis says Harry is quite sick," said Powell to Dick.

"That's too bad. Have they sent for a doctor?"

"I don't know."

When Lew Flapp heard that Harry was sick he grew pale, and during the morning session could scarcely fix his mind on his studies.

"I hope the little fool don't blab on us," was his thought. "If he does there is no telling what the captain will do. He's altogether too strict for comfort in some things."

No doctor was sent for, so it was finally agreed that Harry Moss was not as ill as had been supposed. But the young cadet did not enter the schoolroom for all of that day.

The sickness had frightened Captain Putnam, who was not yet over the scarlet fever scare, and he questioned Harry thoroughly about what he had been doing, and about what he had been eating and drinking.

At first the young cadet did not dare to tell the truth, but finally he blurted out that he had taken a glass of liquor against his will and it had turned his stomach in a most painful manner.

"Where did you get the liquor?" demanded Captain Putnam sternly.

"I--I--oh, must I tell you, sir?"

"Yes, Harry."

"I--that is, Lew Flapp--Oh, sir, I don't want to be a tattle-tale."

"Did Lew Flapp give you the liquor? Answer me at once." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who might tell on someone?
2. Was he sick?
3. Where wasn't he?
4. What time of the day?
5. Who was worried about him tattling?
6. What did he drink that made him sick?
7. From who?
8. How much did he drink?
9. Did he come to class that day?
10. Did a doctor come?
11. Was he as sick as people thought?
12. Who first said he was sick?
13. Did Harry tell someone about where he got the alcohol?
14. Who?
15. What illness had happened before that he was afraid of?
16. Did Harry lie initially?
17. What did Lew think he was?
18. What type of students were they?
19. Did the captain ask a lot of questions?
20. Was Lew worried about what would happen if he found out?
Answer: 1. Harry
2. yes
3. in the messroom
4. morning
5. Lew Flapp
6. liquor
7. Lew Flapp
8. a glass
9. no
10. No
11. no
12. Joe Davis
13. yes
14. Captain Putnam
15. scarlet fever
16. yes
17. a tattle-tale
18. cadets
19. yes
20. yes

CHAPTER VI

WORK!" said Mr. Robert Vyner, severely, as he reclined in a deck-chair on the poop of the Indian Chief and surveyed his surroundings through half-closed eyes. "Work! It's no good sitting here idling while the world's work awaits my attention."

Captain Trimblett, who was in a similar posture a yard away, assented. He also added that there was "nothing like it."

"There's no play without work," continued Mr. Vyner, in a spirit of self-admonition.

The captain assented again. "You said something about work half an hour ago," he remarked.

"And I meant it," said Mr. Vyner; "only in unconscious imitation I dozed off. What I really want is for somebody to take my legs, somebody else my shoulders, and waft me gently ashore."

"I had a cook o' mine put ashore like that once," said Captain Trimblett, in a reminiscent voice; "only I don't know that I would have called it 'wafting,' and, so far as my memory goes, he didn't either. He had a lot to say about it, too."

Mr. Vyner, with a noisy yawn, struggled out of his chair and stood adjusting his collar and waistcoat.

"If I couldn't be a chrysalis," he said, slowly, as he looked down at the recumbent figure of the captain, "do you know what I would like to be?"

"I've had a very hard day's work," said the other, defensively, as he struggled into a sitting posture"very hard. And I was awake half the night with the toothache."

"That isn't an answer to my question," said Mr. Vyner, gently. "But never mind; try and get a little sleep now; try and check that feverish desire for work, which is slowly, very, very slowly, wearing you to skin and bone. Think how grieved the firm would be if the toothache carried you off one night. Why not go below and turn in now? It's nearly five o'clock." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was there a Captain?
2. What was his name
3. What is the first thing that was said
4. By who?
5. Was he sitting
6. in what?
7. Was the Captain sitting
8. What does Mr. Vyner want
9. Did he get out of his chair?
10. Did he yawn?
Answer:
1. yes
2. Captain Trimblett
3. WORK!
4. Mr. Robert Vyner
5. yes
6. a deck-chair
7. yes
8. someone to waft him gently ashore
9. yes
10. yes