question: CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE DEMANDS OF THE ENEMY.

It was an hour later, when the excitement had cooled down a little, that Captain Moore sent for Benson again. Wondering what was to follow, the old scout hurried to the room in which the young commander was transacting his business.

"I want a little talk with you in private, Benson," said the young officer.

"Yes, captain."

"I know you've been wondering why I didn't send you to Fort Prescott instead of sending Hank Leeson."

"You had a right to do as you pleased, captain."

"The truth of the matter is, Benson, I wanted you here. You brought Joe and Darry to the fort, and those two boys need looking after. We are going to have a fight, sooner or later. We may win, and if we do, all right. But if we don't----"

"You want me to stand by the boys to the last?" put in the old scout quickly.

"I do, Benson; and, no matter what comes, I want you to promise to do your level best to save them, and see them safe back to the East. If the worst comes I am willing to die fighting, but Joe must get out of it somehow. If he doesn't it will break my mother's heart. And you must do as well by Darry, for he is an only child."

The eyes of the old scout and the young captain met. Then Benson put out his hand, which Captain Moore quickly grasped.

"I understand, captain. I'll do my best, and if those lads don't get away it will be because Sam Benson aint alive to take 'em."
1. Who sent for Benson?
2. Was Benson old or young?
3. How about the Captain?
4. Why did he not send Benson to Fort Prescott?
5. Who had Benson brought?
6. Where did he bring them?
7. Does the Captain want Benson to abandon the boys?
8. Where should the boys go back to?
9. Who is willing to die fighting?
10. Whose heart will break if they boys don't return?
11. Was Darry a grown man?
12. Who reached out to shake hands first?
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answer: 1. Captain Moore
2. old
3. young
4. he wanted him there
5. Joe and Darry
6. the fort
7. no
8. East.
9. Captain Moore
10. his mother's
11. unknown
12. Benson

question: CHAPTER XXV

THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE SANTIAGO BATTERIES

When Walter returned to his friends he was immediately surrounded and asked what had happened in the cabin. "Did the commodore slap you on the back and call you a bully boy?" queried Si.

"Well, hardly," answered Walter, with a quiet smile. "They plied me with questions and said I had had some remarkable adventures; that's all."

"Didn't praise you?" queried Caleb.

"No."

"Didn't rush up and shake hands even?" put in Paul.

"Not at all. I saluted and toed the mark, and kept toeing it until I left."

At this Paul's face fell. "Why, I thought you would be right in it, Walter," he said.

"I guess you've been reading some dime and half-dime colored-cover novels, Paul. I imagine that is the way they do in such books."

"That's it. Why, I've got a story about 'Dewey's Boy Bodyguard.' The hero in that overheard a plot against Dewey, and Dewey clasped him to his breast and made him a captain of marines."

"Indeed! And you believe such a yarn?"

"Dewey couldn't make the boy a captain of marines, not if he was an admiral twice over," put in Caleb. "Those yarns are pure trash. Paul, you had better study some good book on gunnery, and try to become a gun captain."

"I thought the story was slightly overdrawn," said Paul, growing red in the face. "There is another about the 'Boy Hero of Havana,' who saves General Lee's life at the time the Americans are getting out of Havana. I suppose that is untrue, too."
1. What does Paul like to read?
2. Did he read one about Dewey?
3. What did Dewey do for the hero of that story?
4. What did Dewey promote him to?
5. of what?
6. What is the other story he read about?
7. Who saved him?
8. What are the Americans doing?
9. Does Paul believe this stories?
10. What does Caleb call them?
11. What does he suggest he read?
12. What for?
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answer: 1. American Military stories
2. yes
3. Warned him of a plot
4. a captain
5. marines
6. General Lee
7. the 'Boy Hero of Havana,
8. getting out of Havana
9. Not quite
10. pure trash
11. books on gunnery,
12. to try to become a gun captain.

question: (CNN) -- A 7-year-old Georgia girl fought off a man who'd grabbed her in the aisle of a Walmart, with police eventually tracking down the suspect they accuse of attempted kidnapping.

Georgeann Baxter told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell that she was in the Bremen store with her daughter, Brittney, on Wednesday.

"We were walking around the Walmart, and we felt safe," the mother said, talking about how they were looking at Valentine's Day cards and toys in the west Georgia store, about 45 miles west of Atlanta.

When Baxter asked her daughter if she wanted to join her to get strawberries, the girl said that she wanted to stay in the toy aisle for a few more minutes.

Soon thereafter, surveillance video from the Walmart -- later released by Bremen police -- shows a man approaching her.

"He came up to me and started a conversation," Brittney recalled Thursday to HLN. "After ... I said, 'I'm going to get my Mommy."

The man is seen in the video picking up the young girl and starting to carry her away, as she flailed.

Brittney said she responded as she'd been taught by family, including her brother in the U.S. Army, and a school counselor in a lesson on how to respond if you're touched inappropriately.

"Punch, kick and scream as hard as you can, and then tell somebody that you trust," she said of what she did -- and what she'd tell others to do, if they're in the same situation.

Eventually, the man put the girl down and fled the store. Police later caught and arrested Thomas Woods, whom they accuse of trying to kidnap Brittney.
1. What store did the incident happen?
2. Who did it happen to?
3. In what aisle was it?
4. Does she have a brother?
5. Is he in the military?
6. What branch?
7. What did he teach her to do?
8. What was the assailant's name
9. Was he arrested?
10. What was the girl's name?
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answer:
1. Walmart
2. 7-year-old
3. Valentine's Day
4. yes
5. yes
6. unknown
7. how to respond
8. Thomas Woods
9. yes
10. Brittney