CHAPTER XIV: Three Vain And Foolish Wishes

There's nothing so foolishly silly and vain As to wish for a thing you can never attain. --Old Granny Fox.

We all know that, yet most of us are just foolish enough to make such a wish now and then. I guess you have done it. I know I have. Peter Rabbit has done it often and then laughed at himself afterwards. I suspect that even shrewd, clever old Granny Fox has been guilty of it more than once. So it is not surprising that Reddy Fox, terribly hungry as he was, should do a little foolish wishing.

When he left home to go to the Old Pasture, in the hope that he would be able to find something to eat there, he started off bravely. It was cold, very cold indeed, but his fur coat kept him warm as long as he was moving. The Green Meadows were glistening white with snow. All the world, at least all that part of it with which Reddy was acquainted, was white. It was beautiful, very beautiful, as millions of sparkles flashed in the sun. But Reddy had no thought for beauty; the only thought he had room for was to get something to put in the empty stomachs of himself and Granny Fox.

Jack Frost had hardened the snow so that Reddy no longer had to wade through it. He could run on the crust now without breaking through. This made it much easier, so he trotted along swiftly. He had intended to go straight to the Old Pasture, but there suddenly popped into his head a memory of the shelter down in a far corner of the Old Orchard which Farmer Brown's boy had built for Bob White. Probably the Bob White family were there now, and he might surprise them. He would go there first. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What season is it?
2. What kind of animal is Reddy?
3. Does he live alone?
4. Who lives with him?
5. Have they recently eaten?
6. How long has it been?
7. What was his original destination?
8. Did he get sidetracked?
9. Does he decide to go somewhere else on the way?
10. Where?
11. Who's shelter is it?
12. Did he build it?
13. How did he get it?
14. Does Bob live alone?
15. Who does he live with?
16. Why is Reddy going to the shelter?
17. Does he sink in the snow?
18. Why not?
19. Is he going fast?
20. Is he traveling by foot?
Answer: 1. winter
2. Fox
3. no
4. Granny Fox
5. no
6. unknown
7. Old Pasture
8. no
9. yes
10. shelter down in a far corner of the Old Orchard
11. Bob White.
12. no
13. Farmer Brown's boy built it for him
14. no
15. family
16. to surprise them
17. no
18. Jack Frost had hardened it
19. yes
20. yes

The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8 months after iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. The most recent iPod redesigns were announced on July 15, 2015. There are three current versions of the iPod: the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano and the touchscreen iPod Touch.

Like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB for the iPod Shuffle to 128 GB for the iPod Touch (previously 160 GB for the iPod Classic, which is now discontinued).

Apple's iTunes software (and other alternative software) can be used to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e-mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars, to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Is the iPod a phone?
2. Is it a portable device?
3. What is it exactly?
4. How many kinds are there currently?
5. Is the iPod Classic one of them?
6. Who makes the iPod?
7. When was it first put out?
8. Was that before iTunes?
9. What happened on July 15, 2015?
10. Which did these include?
11. Which is the smallest?
12. How did the iPod Touch get its name?
13. Can iPods store files?
14. Which current type can hold the most?
15. How large is that one?
16. Is that the biggest they've ever made?
17. Which one was?
18. How many gigs was that one?
19. How does one transfer music on an iPod?
20. Does it work with Windows?
Answer: 1. No
2. Yes
3. a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers
4. three
5. No
6. Apple Inc.
7. October 23, 2001
8. No
9. The most recent iPod redesigns were announced
10. the iPod Shuffle, the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch.
11. iPod Shuffle
12. the touchscreen
13. Yes
14. iPod Touch
15. 128 GB
16. No
17. the iPod Classic
18. 160 GB
19. Apple's iTunes software (and other alternative software)
20. Yes

(CNN) -- Passengers have been rescued from a gondola dangling over a freezing creek after the tower snapped in half Tuesday at a ski resort near Whistler, British Columbia.

Rescuers try to reach the passengers trapped inside one of the suspended gondolas Tuesday.

Doug Forseth, senior vice president of the resort, said a total of 53 passengers had been rescued. He said no more people are trapped.

The section of the lift affected by the accident had 15 cars going up the mountain and 15 coming down at the time, but they were sparsely populated, Forseth said.

Three people were freed on the up side, each in a different gondola car, along with 50 people divided among the 15 cars on the down side, he said.

The accident occurred at a tower that was constructed in two pieces, and the top part came away from the lower part, Forseth said. He said resort officials did not know what caused the structural failure, but an investigation would be conducted Wednesday.

Tyler Noble, a reporter for CNNRadio affiliate CKNW in Vancouver, was on the scene at the Whistler Blackcomb resort about 110 miles north of Vancouver. He reported that at least two gondola cars hit the ground after the accident, both from relatively low heights near the tower that split and caused the system's heavy cable line to slacken.

"One hit a bus stop and the other hit a house," Noble said. "Another one was suspended over a creek, but everyone is out of that car." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where is Tyler Noble a report?
2. What city is that based in?
3. What is Doug Forseth's role?
4. How many people were saved?
5. Were more trapped?
6. When did this happen?
7. Was it cold at the time?
8. When would the investigation begin?
9. What was the gondola hanging over?
10. Where was the creek at?
11. In what province?
12. What is the name of the resort?
13. Where did the gondolas hit?
14. Was one hanging over the creek?
15. Was anyone in it?
Answer:
1. CNNRadio affiliate CKNW
2. Whistler
3. senior vice president
4. 53
5. no
6. Tuesday
7. yes
8. Wednesday.
9. a freezing creek
10. a ski resort
11. Whistler, British Columbia.
12. Whistler Blackcomb resort
13. One hit a bus stop and the other hit a house
14. yes
15. no