Q: One day, the mouse, Rudd, got a splinter in his paw when he was putting a new fence around his house. His turtle friend with a weird name, Dig, came up to Rudd after he heard him yelling, "Ouch, I've got a splinter in my paw! Can someone help?" Dig, being the ever helpful turtle, took the splinter in his mouth and tugged it. The splinter popped right out of Rudd's paw and flew right into the air and then landed in the middle of the river.

Rudd looked happy and gave Dig a hug. "Thank you so much, Dig! And for helping me, I'll give you the choice of one of these three desserts I found. What would you like to have? A cake? A cookie? Or maybe this brownie?"

"Oh, Rudd, you are so silly and know you don't even have to ask me which one I'd take. You know I love brownies!" Dig smiled happily as Rudd gave him his treat and another hug for helping with the splinter.

After the two friends finish their dessert, Dig helped Rudd put up the rest of his fence until the sun went down that day. It was a good day for both friends.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the mouse's name?
2. What did he get in his paw?
3. What was he doing when he got it?
4. Who is his friend?
5. What is he?
6. Did he come to help him?
7. Did he take it in his mouth?
8. Did he get it out?
9. Where did it land?
10. Did he look happy?
11. What did he give him?
12. How many desserts were there?
13. What were they?
14. What does he choose?
15. Why?
16. Who smiles then?
A: 1. Rudd.
2. A splinter.
3. Putting a new fence around his house.
4. Dig.
5. A turtle.
6. Yes.
7. Yes.
8. Yes.
9. In the middle of the river.
10. Yes.
11. A hug.
12. Three.
13. A cake, cookie, and brownie.
14. The brownie.
15. He loves brownies.
16. Dig.
Q: CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.

TELLS OF A SERIES OF TERRIBLE SURPRISES.

"Well, what did you think of that, old girl?" asked Peter Pax of Tottie, on issuing from the Literary Message-Boys' Hall, after having performed his duties there.

"It was wonderful. I 'ad no idear that the Post-Office was so old or so grand a' institootion--But please don't forget father," said Tottie, with an anxious look at the battered clock.

"I don't forget 'im, Tot. I've been thinkin' about 'im the whole time, an' I've made up my mind what to do. The only thing I ain't sure of is whether I shouldn't take my friend Phil Maylands into partnership."

"Oh, please, don't," pleaded Tottie; "I shouldn't like 'im to know about father."

"Well, the less he knows about 'im the better. P'r'aps you're right. I'll do it alone, so you cut away home. I'll go to have my personal appearance improved, and then off to Charing Cross. Lots of time, Tottie. Don't be anxious. Try if you can trust me. I'm small, no doubt, but I'm tough.--Good-night."

When Abel Bones seated himself that night in a third-class carriage at Charing Cross, and placed a neat little black hand-bag, in which he carried his housebreaking tools, on the floor between his feet, a small negro boy entered the carriage behind him, and, sitting down directly opposite, stared at him as if lost in unutterable amazement.

Mr Bones took no notice of the boy at first, but became annoyed at last by the pertinacity of his attention.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Tottie think of the post office?
2. How did he discribe it?
3. what was his father's name?
4. What did Abel bones place on the floor?
5. what was in the bag?
6. what was it Abel seated himself in?
7. who was it Tot wasn't sure if he should take into a partnership?
8. what was Peter Pax going to do before he went off to Charring Cross?
9. What did Tottie look at anxiously while talking with his father?
10. Did Peter Pax consider himself tough?
A: 1. That it was wonderful
2. A grand a' institootion
3. Peter Pax
4. A little hand-bag
5. Tools
6. A third-class carriage
7. Phil Maylands
8. Impove his personal appearance
9. unknown
10. Yes
Q: LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The man who police say dressed as Santa Claus and killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party may have also had plans to kill his mother and his former wife's divorce attorney, police said Monday night.

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo went on a shooting rampage in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, police say.

Prime suspect Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police said committed suicide hours after he went on a shooting rampage and started a raging house fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, left a rental car with a gasoline canister outside the home of attorney Scott Nord, said Pat Buchanan of the Covina Police Department.

Police previously said that Pardo targeted his rampage at his former wife, Sylvia Ortega Pardo, and her family at the family's Christmas Eve party.

A divorce between the two was finalized in court on December 18 in a "somewhat contentious proceeding," Covina Police Chief Kim Raney said last week. Police believe Pardo planned to carry out a similar attack at Nord's house as he did at the shooting and house fire that claimed nine lives.

Another rented car that Pardo used to flee the scene was found booby-trapped after the shooting, police said. That car burned as the Covina bomb squad was trying to disconnect an explosive device in it, police said.

On Saturday, Covina police released the names of the nine people unaccounted for since the shooting and fire. Nine bodies were recovered from the rubble of the house, but authorities said that they are having to work with dental records to establish identities.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Bruce Pardo do Wednesday?
2. Where?
3. What was he wearing?
4. How many people were killed?
5. Where were they?
6. Is Pardo still alive?
7. What happened?
8. What did he do after the shooting?
9. Where?
10. What did he leave?
11. Whose home?
12. Who did he target before this?
13. Where were they?
14. Did they have an easy divorce?
15. What day was it final?
16. How did he leave the scene?
17. How was it found?
18. What happened to it?
19. Why?
20. Are they still trying to identify the bodies?
A:
1. went on a shooting rampage
2. in a Los Angeles suburb
3. dressed as Santa Claus
4. nine people
5. a Christmas Eve party
6. No
7. He committed suicide
8. started a raging house fire
9. in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina,
10. left a rental car with a gasoline canister outside a home
11. attorney Scott Nord
12. at his former wife, Sylvia Ortega Pardo, and her family
13. at the family's Christmas Eve party.
14. No
15. December 18
16. Another rented car
17. booby-trapped
18. it burned
19. as the Covina bomb squad was trying to disconnect an explosive device in it,
20. Yes