question: CHAPTER XXV

THE BEGINNING OF THE GRAND HUNT

Dave's announcement produced a little sensation, and for the moment his chums stared at him in astonishment.

"Come to think of it, that man does look like the little newsboy," said Roger, slowly. "Do you suppose they can be related?"

"I'd hate to think that Charley Gamp was related to such a fellow," said Phil. "Snogger isn't a nice sort to have anything to do with."

"Mr. Endicott said he didn't use to be so bad," answered Dave. "It is only lately--since he went to work for Mr. Merwell--that he has grown dissolute."

"Maybe he is sorry that he left the Endicott place," said the senator's son. "I'll wager he has no such nice times at the Triple X Ranch as he had at the Star."

"Not if all the cowboys are like those who came to our entertainment," said Phil. "But, Dave, if you think he's related to Charley Gamp, why not speak to him about it?"

"You may get into trouble if you do," interposed Roger, hastily. "Some of these Western characters don't like to have their past raked up."

"But Charley Gamp wants to find his relatives," went on the shipowner's son.

"I'll bring it around--when I get the chance," said Dave. "But I can't do it now," he added. "He's gone." And Dave was right. Hank Snogger had leaped on his horse, and was off, on a trail that led up the river instead of across it.

"What are you boys confabbing about?" cried Belle, coming up, with a box of candy in her hand.
1. What was the name of this chapter?
2. Who made an announcement at the beginning?
3. Who rebuttled to his statement?
4. Did he say it quickly?
5. How does he wonder of a Western character?
6. What will that cause?
7. Who is sorry they moved from Endicott?
8. Does he have anyone in his family in the story?
9. What is his name?
10. Has the troubled child always acted this way?
11. When did this begin?
12. Where do they believe that he picked up the habit?
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answer: 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE GRAND HUNT
2. Dave
3. Roger
4. No
5. Western characters don't like to have their past raked up
6. Trouble
7. Snogger
8. Yes
9. Charley Gamp
10. No
11. only lately
12. since he went to work for Mr. Merwell

question: CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.

BRANWEN VISITS GUNRIG.

Before going off on his mission the Hebrew paid a visit to his own residence, where he found Branwen busy with culinary operations. Sitting down on a stool, he looked at her with an expression of mingled amusement and perplexity.

"Come hither, my girl," he said, "and sit beside me while I reveal the straits to which you have brought me. Verily, a short time ago I had deemed it impossible for any one to thrust me so near to the verge of falsehood as you have done!"

"I, Beniah?" exclaimed the maiden, with a look of surprise on her pretty face so ineffably innocent that it was obviously hypocritical--insomuch that Beniah laughed, and Branwen was constrained to join him.

"Yes--you and your father together, for the puzzling man has commissioned me to set out for the Hot Swamp, to tell Bladud that he is urgently wanted at home. And he would not even allow me to open my lips, when I was about to broach the subject of your disguises, although he almost certainly knows all about them--"

"What! my father knows?" interrupted Branwen, with raised eyebrows.

"Yes, and you know that he knows, and he knows that I know, and we all know that each other knows, and why there should be any objection that every one should know is more than I can--"

"Never mind, Beniah," interrupted the girl, with the slightest possible smile. "You are a dear, good old creature, and I know you won't betray me. Remember your solemn promise."
1. who was Beniah speaking to?
2. where did her father want Beniah to go?
3. who was he supposed to see?
4. what message was he to give him?
5. what did Branwen's father know about?
6. what did she ask Beniah to remember?
7. what was she doing when he came to visit?
8. did Beniah accuse Branwen of something?
9. of what?
10. was she surprised?
11. what ethnicity is Beniah?
12. where did he go before he left?
13. what did he sit on?
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answer: 1. Branwen
2. the Hot Swamp
3. Bladud
4. he is wanted at home.
5. their disguises
6. his solemn promise
7. culinary operations
8. yes
9. thrusting him to the verge of falsehood
10. yes
11. Hebrew
12. his own residence
13. a stool,

question: Chapter XI

Now that Grandfather had fought through the Old French War, in which our chair made no very distinguished figure, he thought it high time to tell the children some of the more private history of that praiseworthy old piece of furniture.

"In 1757," said Grandfather, "after Shirley had been summoned to England, Thomas Pownall was appointed governor of Massachusetts. He was a gay and fashionable English gentleman, who had spent much of his life in London, but had a considerable acquaintance with America. The new governor appears to have taken no active part in the war that was going on; although, at one period, he talked of marching against the enemy, at the head of his company of cadets. But, on the whole, he probably concluded that it was more befitting a governor to remain quietly in our chair, reading the newspapers and official documents."

"Did the people like Pownall?" asked Charley.

"They found no fault with him," replied Grandfather. "It was no time to quarrel with the governor, when the utmost harmony was required, in order to defend the country against the French. But Pownall did not remain long in Massachusetts. In 1759, he was sent to be governor of South Carolina. In thus exchanging one government for another, I suppose he felt no regret, except at the necessity of leaving Grandfather's chair behind him."

"He might have taken it to South Carolina," observed Clara.

"It appears to me," said Laurence, giving the rein to his fancy, "that the fate of this ancient chair was, somehow or other, mysteriously connected with the fortunes of old Massachusetts. If Governor Pownall had put it aboard the vessel in which he sailed for South Carolina, she would probably have lain wind-bound in Boston harbor. It was ordained that the chair should not be taken away. Don't you think so, Grandfather?"
1. when did Pownall become governor?
2. where was Shirley then?
3. did people like Pownall?
4. what happened in 1759?
5. what did he leave behind?
6. what war did grandfather fight in?
7. what did he decide to tell the kids?
8. where did Pownall grow up?
9. did he take part in the war?
10. what did he think about doing against the enenemy?
11. why didnt he?
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answer:
1. In 1757
2. England
3. yes
4. he was sent to be governor of South Carolina
5. Grandfather's chair
6. the Old French War
7. some of the more private history of the old piece of furniture
8. London
9. no
10. marching against them
11. it was more befitting a governor to remain quietly in our chair