Question:
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There was once a young bear who lived in a small cave in the woods. His cave was comfy, warm, and dark, and had a bit of a yard in front of it. The bear lived with his mother and father, and spent his days walking around and his nights curled up asleep. He liked to look for berries to eat. His favorite berries were blueberries, but he would eat any berries he found: strawberries, raspberries, cherries, anything.

There was a river near the bear's cave, and he loved to sit on the bank and look at the fish and frogs, and at his own reflection in the water. One sunny afternoon, when he was looking into the river, he saw a family of ducks swimming by. He got up and followed them. They swam along in the river, and he walked along the bank. They traveled like this until they reached a small clearing in the forest. The bear stopped and looked around, and saw that the clearing was completely filled with blueberries -- more than he had ever seen!

The young bear ate his fill of blueberries, then took home as many as he could carry in his paws. He went to bed happy. It was a wonderful day.
1. who did the bear live with?
2. what did he like to eat?

Numbered answers:
1. his mother and father
2. berries

Question:
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.

IN WHICH GLUMM TAKES TO HUNTING ON THE MOUNTAINS FOR CONSOLATION, AND FINDS IT UNEXPECTEDLY, WHILE ALRIC PROVES HIMSELF A HERO.

"I go to the fells to-day," said Glumm to Alric one morning, as the latter opened the door of Glummstede and entered the hall.

"I go also," said Alric, leaning a stout spear which he carried against the wall, and sitting down on a stool beside the fire to watch Glumm as he equipped himself for the chase.

"Art ready, then? for the day is late," said Glumm.

"All busked," replied the boy.--"I say, Glumm, is that a new spear thou hast got?"

"Aye; I took it from a Swedish viking the last fight I had off the coast. We had a tough job of it, and left one or two stout men behind to glut the birds of Odin, but we brought away much booty. This was part of it," he added, buckling on a long hunting-knife, which was stuck in a richly ornamented sheath, "and that silver tankard too, besides the red mantle that my mother wears, and a few other things--but my comrades got the most of it."

"I wish I had been there, Glumm," said Alric.

"If Hilda were here, lad, she would say it is wrong to wish to fight."

"Hilda has strange thoughts," observed the boy.

"So has Erling," remarked his companion.

"And so has Ada," said Alric, with a sly glance.

Glumm looked up quickly. "What knowest _thou_ about Ada?" said he.
1. Who was Glumm talking to?
2. Where did he tell him he was going?
3. and when was he going there?
4. Was Alric going to go also?
5. What was Alric carrying?
6. and where did he lean it?
7. Did Alric sit down?
8. Where did he sit?
9. and what was the stool next to?
10. Did Glumm have a new spear?
11. Who had he gotten it from?
12. during what?
13. Where was the fight?
14. What was the long knife in?
15. what else did he get from the fight?

Numbered answers:
1. Alric
2. fells
3. to-day
4. yes
5. spear
6. the wall
7. yes
8. on a stool
9. the fire
10. yes
11. viking
12. the last fight
13. off the coast
14. sheath
15. silver tankard

Question:
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CHAPTER XXX

THE NEW WELL--CONCLUSION

Carson Davenport was halfway up the steps of the car when Jake Tate and another man hauled him backward to the station platform.

"They've got him!" exclaimed Jack, as he and his cousins, along with the rest of the gathering crowd, came closer.

"Hi! Hi! Let me alone!" yelled Davenport. "Don't shoot! What is the meaning of this, anyway?"

"You know well enough what it means!" bellowed Tate, still clutching him by the arm. "You come back here. You are not going to take that train or any other just yet."

"And you're not going to carry off that bag, either," put in Jackson, as he wrenched the Gladstone away.

By this time the crowd completely surrounded Carson Davenport, and the pistols which had been drawn were speedily thrust out of sight. The oil well promoter was pushed in the direction of the little railroad station, and in the midst of this excitement the train pulled out.

"What's the rumpus about, anyway?" exclaimed one man in the crowd.

"Never mind what it's about," broke in Tate hastily. "This is our affair."

"That's right--maybe we had better keep it to ourselves," muttered Jackson.

"I don't believe in shielding him," cried one man who had chased Davenport and who wore several soldier's medals on his vest. "He's a swindler, and it's best everybody knew it. He was on the point of lighting out for parts unknown with all the money that was put into his oil wells up on the Spell ranch."
1. Who was chased?
2. What's the name of the ranch?
3. Who pursued Carson?
4. Who stopped him?
5. Anyone else?
6. Does Jake have any relatives?
7. What are they?
8. Who were they with?
9. And who was gathered there?
10. Were they far away?
11. Did Carson get on board?
12. What did they take from him?
13. And what is that?
14. Did somebody promote something?
15. What?
16. Did the locomotive leave?
17. Where were the oil rigs?
18. Where were the military emblems found?
19. Where were they?
20. Was Davenport trying to escape?
Numbered answers:
1. Carson Davenport
2. Spell ranch
3. one man
4. Jake Tate
5. another man
6. yes
7. cousins
8. Jack
9. a crowd
10. no
11. no
12. a Gladstone
13. a bag,
14. yes
15. oil well
16. yes
17. on the Spell ranch
18. medals
19. on the soldier's vest
20. No