Q: CHAPTER XIV

A FACE PUZZLES DAVE

It was a time of extreme peril for Roger, and no one realized it more fully than did Dave. The angry steer was still some distance away, but coming forward at his best speed. One prod from those horns and the senator's son would be killed or badly hurt.

As said before, Phil had gone on, thinking his chums would follow. He was already at the side of his horse, and speedily untied the animal, and vaulted into the saddle.

"Why, what's up?" he cried, in dismay, as he turned, to behold Roger in the hole and Dave beside him.

"Roger's foot is fast!" answered Dave. "Oh, Phil, see if you can't scare the steer off!"

"I'll do what I can," came from the shipowner's son, and rather timidly, it must be confessed, he advanced on the animal in question. He gave a loud shout and swung his arm, and the steer looked toward him and came to a halt.

"You've got your gun--if he tries to horn Roger, shoot him," went on Dave.

"I will," answered Phil, and riding still closer he swung his firearm around for action.

Dave made a hasty examination and saw that Roger's foot was caught by the toe and the heel, and would have to be turned in a side-way fashion to be loosened. He caught his chum under the arms and turned him partly over.

"Now try it," he said quickly, at the same time turning once more to look at the steer. The beast had finished his inspection of Phil and was coming forward as before, with head and horns almost sweeping the ground. Behind him trailed the long lasso, which was still fast to one of his forelegs.

1. extreme peril
2. Roger's foot was caught by the toe and the heel
3. The angry steer
4. the shipowner
5. no
6. Two
7. Dave
8. Phil
9. he had gone on
10. He untied the animal,

Numbered questions:
1. What happened to Roger?
2. Why?
3. What was the danger?
4. Who was his father?
5. Was he alone?
6. How many were with him?
7. Who was beside him?
8. Who had already got on his horse?
9. What did he do?
10. And then?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said Wednesday.

John Couey had been sentenced to death for killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in Florida in 2005.

John Evander Couey, 51, died at 11:15 a.m. ET of natural causes, a Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman told CNN. He had been taken to a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital from Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida.

Because of privacy laws, no further information could be released by the Department of Corrections.

A source close to the case told CNN that Couey's death was not unexpected and he had been ill for some time.

"I never dreamed it would happen like this," Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, told CNN. He said he never thought he would live long enough to see Couey put to death because of the lengthy appeals process.

He said he was sad when he heard the news of Couey's death. "To me, death is sad," he said. "But her death, Jessie's death, has been redeemed ... I'm relieved. I'm glad it's over with."

Couey was sentenced to die in August 2007 for abducting and raping Lunsford, then killing her by burying her alive. The girl was snatched from her bed in her family's Homosassa, Florida, home the evening of February 23, 2005, by Couey, a registered sex offender. Her body was found three weeks later, buried at the home of Couey's half-sister, who lived within sight of the Lunsford home.

The girl's body was wrapped in plastic garbage bags, and her hands were bound with speaker wire. She was clutching a stuffed dolphin -- a toy won for her at a state fair by her father, and which Couey allowed her to bring with her when she was abducted. 1. Why couldn't information be release by department of corrections?
2. When was couey sentenced?
3. Had he been ill for a long time?
4. Where did she win her stuffed dolphin?
5. Who had won it for her?
6. What was her fathers name?
7. What was Courey's middle name?
8. Where was the hospital he was taken to?
9. What town was the florida state prison in?
10. How far from Jessic'as home did Courey's half sister live?
numbered_answers: 1. Because of privacy laws
2. 2007
3. Yes
4. A state fair
5. Her father
6. Mark Lunsford
7. Evander
8. Jacksonville, Florida
9. Starke, Florida.
10. Within sight of the Lunsford home.

Chapter I. Retirement From Leadership. (1874-1875)

" , , ; ."HERODOTUS iv. 150.

"I am too old, O king, and slow to stir; so bid thou one of the younger men here do these things."

A member of the great government of 1868, in a letter to one of his family, gave an account of the final meeting of the cabinet:

_Feb. 17, 1874._I doubthe sayswhether I ever passed a more eventful evening than yesterday. The whole cabinet was assembled. We resolved after full discussion of pros and cons, and some slight difference of opinion, to resign at once. After which came the startling announcement that Gladstone would no longer retain the leadership of the liberal party, nor resume it, unless the party had settled its differences. He will not expose himself to the insults and outrages of 1866-8, and he has a keen sense of the disloyalty of the party during the last three years. He will sit as a private member and occasionally speak for himself, but he will not attend the House regularly, nor assume any one of the functions of leader. He does this not from anger, but because he says that it is absolutely necessary to party action to learn that all the duties and responsibilities do not rest on the leaders, but that followers have their obligations too. As a consequence of this Cardwell retires to the House of Lords. He will not take the leadership, nor will he consent to serve under any one but Gladstone. He is too old, he says. Lowe protests against the anarchical experiment, and talks of Hartington as leader. As neither Lowe, nor Bright, nor Goschen, nor Forster is in a position to act as leader, it may come to this, so that the liberal front benches of the two Houses will be entirely remodelled.(309) What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What were they a member of?
2. What did they write?
3. To whom?
4. What was it about?
5. What was it dated?
6. Was the entire cabinet gathered together?
7. What was the full discussion about?
8. Who would not be the head of the liberal party any longer?
9. How long had he had a sense of disloyality?
10. What did Lowe protest against?
11. Who do they talk about becoming the leader?
Answer:
1. the great government of 1868
2. a letter
3. one of his family
4. an account of the final meeting of the cabinet
5. Feb. 17, 1874
6. yes
7. to resign
8. Gladstone
9. the last three years
10. the anarchical experiment
11. Hartington