Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IX

MERRIL TIGHTENS THE SCREW

The _Sorata_ went to sea again next morning, and one night a week later she bore up for Vancouver before a westerly breeze. A thin crescent moon had just cleared the dim white line of the mainland snow, and the sea glittered faintly in her frothing wake under a vast sweep of dusky blue. The big topsail swayed across it, blotting out the stars, and there was a rhythmic splashing beneath the bows.

Anthea Merril stood at the tiller outlined against the heave of sea, for the night was warm and she was dressed in white. Nellie Austerly sat on a locker in the cockpit, and her father on the saloon skylights with a cigar in his hand. Valentine lay on the deck not far away, and Jimmy a little further forward.

"I suppose we will be in soon after daylight, and I'm sorry," said Nellie Austerly. "It has been an almost perfect cruise in spite of the bad weather. Don't you wish we were going back again, instead of home, Anthea?"

Jimmy roused himself to attention, for he would very much have liked to hear Miss Merril's real thoughts on the matter; but she laughed.

"I don't think it would be very much use if I did," she said. "One can't go sailing always--and if you feel that that is a pity, you can think of the rain and the wind."

"Ah!" said Nellie Austerly, "one has to bear so much of them everywhere. Sometimes one wonders whether life is all gray days and rain; but this trip has made me better, and, perhaps, if Mr. Valentine will take us, we will go back next year and revel once more in the sea and the sunshine--we really had a good deal of the latter."

1. What was Anthea wearing?
2. who else was on the boat?
3. what was she doing?
4. what was the boat named?
5. Did Nellie want to go home?
6. what time of day is it?
7. what's the weather like?
8. was the moon full?
9. what shape was it?
10. What was Nellie's father doing?
11. Who was laying on the deck?
12. What has the trip done for Nellie?
13. when does she want to do it again?
14. who would take them?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. white
2. Nellie Austerly
3. Sitting on a locker
4. The _Sorata_
5. No.
6. Night
7. warm
8. No.
9. A thin crescen
10. sitting on the saloon skylights
11. Valentine
12. made her better,
13. next year
14. Mr. Valentine

Question: CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.

MISSED AND MOURNED.

"Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain." _Longfellow_.

"Be they Gobblealls not coming home?" asked Nanny Barton, as she stood at her gate, while some of her neighbours came slowly out of church, about two years later.

"My man, he did ask Shepherd Tomkins," said Betsy Seddon, "and all the answer he got was, 'You don't desarve it, not you.' As if my man had gone out with that there rabble rout!"

"And I'm sure mine only went up to see what they were after, and helped to put out the fire beside."

"Ay," said Cox, behind her, "but not till the soldiers were come."

"Time they did come!" said Seddon. "Rain comes through the roof, and that there Lawyer Brent won't have nothing done to it till the captain comes home."

"Yes," added Morris, "and when I spoke to him about my windows, as got blown in, he said 'cottages were no end of expense, and we hadn't treated them so as they would wish to come back nohow.'"

"Think of their bearing malice!" cried Nanny Barton.

"I don't believe as how they does," responded the other Nanny. "They have sent the coals and the blankets all the same."

"Bear malice!" said Mrs Truman, who had just walked up. "No, no. Why, Parson Harford have said over and over again, when he gave a shilling or so or a meat order, to help a poor lady that was ill, that 'twas by madam's wish." 1. Who would do nothing about the roof?
2. What was wrong with it?
3. What was he waiting on?
4. What did he say about cottages?
5. Who did he say this to?
6. When?
7. Was it in response to issues with Morris' home?
8. Who was Nanny Barton concerned with?
9. What was her concern?
10. Where was she standing?
11. What was happening?
12. After how long?
13. What did Betsy's husband help do?
14. Who helped the poor lady that was ill?
15. How did he help?
16. Who wanted hi to do this?
17. Who heard him say this? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Lawyer Brent
2. Rain comes through
3. The captain to come home
4. They were no end of expense
5. Morris
6. unknown
7. Yes
8. The Gobblealls
9. If they were not coming home
10. At her gate
11. Some of her neighbours came slowly out of church
12. Two years later
13. He asked Shepherd Tomkins
14. Parson Harford
15. He gave a shilling or so or a meat order
16. Madam's
17. Mrs Truman

Q: CHAPTER III: Lightfoot Tells How His Antlers Grew

It is hard to believe what seems impossible. And yet what seems impossible to you may be a very commonplace matter to some one else. So it does not do to say that a thing cannot be possible just because you cannot understand how it can be. Peter Rabbit wanted to believe what Lightfoot the Deer had just told him, but somehow he couldn't. If he had seen those antlers growing, it would have been another matter. But he hadn't seen Lightfoot since the very last of winter, and then Lightfoot had worn just such handsome antlers as he now had. So Peter really couldn't be blamed for not being able to believe that those old ones had been lost and in their place new ones had grown in just the few months of spring and summer.

But Peter didn't blame Lightfoot in the least, because he had told Peter that he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them when Peter had asked him about the rags hanging to his antlers. "I'm trying to believe it," he said, quite humbly.

"It's all true," broke in another voice.

Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin, Jumper the Hare. Unseen and unheard, he had stolen up and had overheard what Peter and Lightfoot had said.

"How do you know it is true?" snapped Peter a little crossly, for Jumper had startled him.

"Because I saw Lightfoot's old antlers after they had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing," retorted Jumper.

1. Jumper
2. a Hare.
3. yes
4. he was a cousin
5. yes
6. that his old antlers had been lost and new ones grew in their place
7. the very last of winter,
8. yes
9. Deer
10. "It's all true,"
11. he saw Lightfoot's old antlers and he saw Lightfoot often while the new ones were growing
12. just the few months of spring and summer.
13. rags
14. he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them

Numbered questions:
1. Who startled Peter?
2. What kind of animal was he?
3. Was he related to Peter?
4. How?
5. Was Jumper evesdropping?
6. What had Lighfoot told Peter that he did not believe?
7. When was the last time Peter saw him?
8. Did he want to believe him?
9. What kind of animal was Lightfoot?
10. What did Jumper say about his story?
11. How did he know it was true?
12. How long had it taken for the new ones to grow?
13. What was hanging from his antlers?
14. Why did Peter blame Lightfoot?