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CHAPTER XV

A RUNAWAY MOTOR-BOAT

"What do you make of that?"

"The motor-boat must have run away from Nat!"

"Either that or Nat has fallen overboard!"

"Maybe Nat has been drowned!"

These and other remarks were made, as the boys on the highway gazed down at the craft that was speeding along in such an erratic fashion over the surface of the river. A closer look confirmed their first opinion, that nobody was on board.

"I'm going to try to stop her!" shouted Dave, and ran back along the highway, and disappeared into the bushes. Roger followed him closely, and some of the others trailed behind.

"I am going up the river--to see if I can find Nat!" shouted Phil, and away he sped, and Sam and Ben went along.

It was no easy matter for Dave to work his way down the bank of the stream. The bushes were thick and the footing uncertain, and once his jacket caught on a root and he had to pause to free himself. But at last he came out on a narrow strip of rocks and sand, at a point where the Leming River made a broad turn.

The water at this point was quite shallow, and here he thought the progress of the motor-boat would be stayed. His surmise was correct, the craft bringing up between several smooth rocks. The engine continued to work, pounding the boat back and forth, and threatening to sink her.

Fortunately, Dave had on a pair of gaiters he had borrowed, and they were so big that he slipped them off with ease. His socks followed, and then he rolled up his trousers to his knees, and waded into the stream.

1. Who was having difficultly reaching the water?
2. Why?
3. Did he make it?
4. What was the body of water called?
5. Did it have a name?
6. Was it deep?
7. Why was he going to it?
8. Did he find the barge?
9. Was it broken?
10. Who yelled they were looking for Nat?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. dave
2. uncertain footing, thick brush and he was caught on a root
3. yes
4. river
5. Leming River
6. no
7. they can't find nat
8. yes
9. the engine was runing and threatening to sink the ship on the rocks
10. Phil

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San Francisco (initials SF) (, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887. The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033.

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asis a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.

1. What is the fourth most populous city in California?
2. What does it rank in the US?
3. When was it founded?
4. What was it named for?
5. How many people live there?
6. During the gold rush was it a small city?
7. How big was it?
8. Is it part of Southern California?
9. Is it a conservative city?
10. What happened to the city in 1906?
11. by what?
12. What happened in 1945

Numbered answers:

A: 1. San Francisco
2. 13th
3. June 29, 1776
4. St. Francis of Assisi.
5. 870,887
6. No
7. largest city on the West Coast
8. No
9. No
10. destroyed
11. earthquake and fire
12. birthplace of the United Nations in 1945

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English law is the common law legal system governing England and Wales, comprising criminal law and civil law.

English law has no formal codification: the essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts applying statute, and legal precedent ("stare decisis") from previous cases. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom, is binding on every other court.

Some rulings are derived from legislation; others, known as common law, are based on rulings of previous courts. For example, murder is a common law crime rather than one established by an Act of Parliament. Common law can be amended or repealed by Parliament; murder, for example, now carries a mandatory life sentence rather than the death penalty.

The first schedule of the Interpretation Act 1978, defines the following terms: "British Islands", "England", and "United Kingdom". The use of the term "British Isles" is virtually obsolete in statutes and, when it does appear, it is taken to be synonymous with "British Islands". For interpretation purposes, England includes a number of specified elements:

"Great Britain" means England, Wales, Scotland, their adjacent territorial waters and the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and, by virtue of the Island of Rockall Act 1972, Rockall. "United Kingdom" means Great Britain and Northern Ireland and their adjacent territorial waters, but not the Isle of Man, nor the Channel Islands, whose independent status was discussed in "Rover International Ltd. v Canon Film Sales Ltd." (1987) 1 WLR 1597 and "Chloride Industrial Batteries Ltd. v F. & W. Freight Ltd." (1989) 1 WLR 823. "British Islands"but not "British Isles"means the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

1. Does English law have a formal codification?
2. Who makes it?
3. What is stare decisis?
4. Where does it come from?
5. Where else are ruling derived from?
6. What is the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom?
7. What act was passed in 1978
8. What is the punishment for murder?
9. What does the Interpretation Act 19787 define?
10. What does "Great Britain" mean
11. Are islands a part of that?
12. Which ones?
13. What act made Rockall a part of this?
14. What does United Kingdom mean?
15. Does that include Isle of Man?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. no
2. judges
3. legal precedent
4. from previous cases
5. from legislation
6. its highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom
7. the Interpretation Act 1978
8. a mandatory life sentence
9. it defines the following terms: "British Islands", "England", and "United Kingdom"
10. "Great Britain" means England, Wales, Scotland
11. yes
12. the islands of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and, by virtue of the Island of Rockall
13. Rockall Act 1972,
14. "United Kingdom" means Great Britain and Northern Ireland and their adjacent territorial waters
15. no