Q: CHAPTER XXVII

DAN BAXTER'S REPENTANCE

The three Rover boys could scarcely believe their senses. Here they were once more in full possession of the _Mermaid_ so far as the deck and cabin were concerned--and those who had sought to make them prisoners were prisoners themselves.

"This is where the biter got bit," remarked Tom. "Say, I feel so good I could almost dance."

"Sack Todd got shot," said Dick. "I'd like to know if it is serious."

"Well, I am not very sorry for him," said Sam. "He's a thoroughly bad egg."

"We want to make certain of Dan Baxter," went on the eldest Rover. "He may fool Hans."

They walked toward the cabin and ran down the companionway. At the lower doorway they paused and then Tom grinned.

On one side of the room was Dan Baxter with his hands in the air. On the other side was Hans, with a pistol in each hand.

"Ton't dare to mofe," Hans was saying. "Of you do I vos put oxactly fourteen shots into your poty, ain't it!"

"I am not moving," grumbled Baxter. "Didn't I tell you I am sick of the whole thing, Dutchy? I don't want to fight, or anything."

"Tan Paxter, you chust remember dot old saying, beoples vot lif in glass houses ton't got no right to tell fish stories," answered Hans, gravely.

"Hans, that's a good one!" roared Tom, coming forward. "Say, you're a whole regiment in yourself, ain't you?"

"Yah, I vos so goot like ten or sefenteen soljers, alretty!" answered the German youth, proudly. "Paxter, he ton't got avay from me, not much!"

1. Three
2. A boat
3. The Mermaid
4. Rover
5. Toward the cabin
6. Yes
7. down the companionway
8. At the lower doorway
9. Tom
10. A man with his hands in the air
11. Dan Baxter
12. A man with pistols
13. Hans
14. Stand still
15. Shoot him
16. 14

Numbered questions:
1. How many boys were there?
2. What did they have?
3. What was it's name?
4. What was the boy's surname?
5. Where did they walk?
6. Did they speed up?
7. Where?
8. Where did they stop?
9. Who smiled?
10. What did they see in the room?
11. What was his name?
12. What was opposite of him?
13. Named?
14. What did he tell Dan to do?
15. Or he would do what?
16. How many times?

Q: CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

Now hold thy tongue, Billy Bewick, he said, Of peaceful talking: let me be; But if thou art a man, as I think thou art, Come ower the dyke and fight with me. BORDER MINSTRELSY.

On the morning after this gay evening, the two young men were labouring together in a plot of ground behind Stevenlaw's Land, which the Doctor had converted into a garden, where he raised, with a view to pharmacy as well as botany, some rare plants, which obtained the place from the vulgar the sounding name of the Physic Garden. [Footnote: The Botanic Garden is so termed by the vulgar of Edinburgh.] Mr. Gray's pupils readily complied with his wishes, that they would take some care of this favourite spot, to which both contributed their labours, after which Hartley used to devote himself to the cultivation of the kitchen garden, which he had raised into this respectability from a spot not excelling a common kail-yard, while Richard Middleman did his utmost to decorate with flowers and shrubs a sort of arbour, usually called Miss Menie's bower.

At present they were both in the botanic patch of the garden, when Dick Middlemas asked Hartley why he had left the ball so soon the evening before?

"I should rather ask you," said Hartley, "what pleasure you felt in staying there?--I tell you, Dick, it is a shabby low place this Middlemas of ours. In the smallest burgh in England, every decent freeholder would have been asked if the Member gave a ball."

1. Billy Bewick
2. fight him.
3. worked together on the land
4. behind Stevenlaw's Land
5. the Doctor
6. some rare plants
7. care of this favourite spot
8. to decorate with flowers and shrubs a sort of arbour
9. o devote himself to the cultivation of the kitchen garden
10. Dick Middlemas
11. why Hartey had left the ball so soon the evening before?
12. shabby low place

Numbered questions:
1. Who was told to be quiet?
2. What does the man command Billy to do to prove his manhood?
3. What did the men do the next morning?
4. Where was this land?
5. Who made it a gardenpatch?
6. What was grown there?
7. What was the Doc's wishes of his pupils?
8. What was Richard's role in the garden?
9. And Harltey's role?
10. Who interrupted their work?
11. What did he want to know?
12. What is Hartley's opinion of the town?

Q: Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber estuary, 25miles (40km) inland from the North Sea, with a population of ().

The town of Hull was founded late in the 12th century. The monks of Meaux Abbey needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported. They chose a place at the confluence of the rivers Hull and Humber to build a quay.

The exact year the town was founded is not known but it was first mentioned in 1193. Renamed "Kings-town upon Hull" by King Edward I in 1299, Hull has been a market town, military supply port, trading hub, fishing and whaling centre and industrial metropolis.

Hull was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars. Its 18th century Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, took a prominent part in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

The city is unique in the UK in having had a municipally owned telephone system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, telephone boxes.

After suffering heavy damage in the Second World War (the 'Hull Blitz'), Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, gaining unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation, education and policing. In the early 21st century spending boom before the late 2000s recession the city saw large amounts of new retail, commercial, housing and public service construction spending.

1. Kingston upon Hull.
2. unknown
3. 1193.
4. Kings-town upon Hull.
5. 1299.
6. A market town.
7. A military supply port.
8. Yes.
9. 25miles.
10. The North Sea.
11. Yes.
12. The River Hull.
13. The Second World War.
14. Yes.
15. The early 21st century.

Numbered questions:
1. What city is the article about?
2. What year was it founded?
3. When was it first mentioned?
4. What did King Edward name it?
5. When?
6. What type of town is it?
7. What else has it been?
8. Is it near the sea?
9. How far?
10. What body of water is near?
11. Is there a river nearby?
12. What is it called?
13. When did the city suffer heavy damage?
14. Were battles fought there?
15. What century saw a spending boom?