question: CHAPTER IX

A silence ensued, fraught with poignant fear for Helen, as she gazed into Bo's whitening face. She read her sister's mind. Bo was remembering tales of lost people who never were found.

"Me an' Milt get lost every day," said Roy. "You don't suppose any man can know all this big country. It's nothin' for us to be lost."

"Oh!... I was lost when I was little," said Bo.

"Wal, I reckon it'd been better not to tell you so offhand like," replied Roy, contritely. "Don't feel bad, now. All I need is a peek at Old Baldy. Then I'll have my bearin'. Come on."

Helen's confidence returned as Roy led off at a fast trot. He rode toward the westering sun, keeping to the ridge they had ascended, until once more he came out upon a promontory. Old Baldy loomed there, blacker and higher and closer. The dark forest showed round, yellow, bare spots like parks.

"Not so far off the track," said Roy, as he wheeled his horse. "We'll make camp in Milt's senaca to-night."

He led down off the ridge into a valley and then up to higher altitude, where the character of the forest changed. The trees were no longer pines, but firs and spruce, growing thin and exceedingly tall, with few branches below the topmost foliage. So dense was this forest that twilight seemed to have come.

Travel was arduous. Everywhere were windfalls that had to be avoided, and not a rod was there without a fallen tree. The horses, laboring slowly, sometimes sank knee-deep into the brown duff. Gray moss festooned the tree-trunks and an amber-green moss grew thick on the rotting logs.
1. Who was Helen looking at?
2. Was it turning red?
3. What was Bo remembering?
4. About what?
5. Who was talking about getting lost?
6. Who did he say got lost with him?
7. What did Roy say he wanted a peek at?
8. What did Roy ride toward?
9. Did this make Helen feel confident?
10. What was Roy keeping to?
11. Were they ascending it?
12. Where were they going to set up camp?
13. Where exactly?
14. What did the horses do in the duff?
15. What was on the tree trunks?
16. What was on the logs?
17. Were the logs healthy-looking?
18. What kind of logs were they described as?
19. Was the moss growing thick or thin on those logs?
20. What time of day did the denseness of the forest make it seem like?
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answer: 1. Bo's face
2. No
3. Some tales
4. Lost people who never were found
5. Roy initially.
6. Milt
7. Old Baldy.
8. The westering sun,
9. Yes
10. The ridge
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Milt's senaca
14. They sometimes sank knee-deep
15. Gray moss
16. Amber-green moss
17. No
18. Rotting logs
19. Thick
20. Twilight

question: CHAPTER VII.

NEW LODGINGS.

Dan was so eager to see the new lodgings that he could not wait with any degree of patience until Seth had fully satisfied himself regarding certain matters connected with the leasing of them, but insisted on setting out at once, and his partner felt obliged to accompany him.

Arriving at the address given them by 'Lish Davis, they found affairs exactly as he had stated.

The room which had been offered at such a low rental was in the attic of an old-fashioned, pitch-roof house, and although it was not such an apartment as could readily have been let to adults, to the boys it appeared as the acme of comfort and even luxury.

Mrs. Hanson, the mistress of the dwelling, had provided a fairly good bed for the lodgers, and the clothing on it looked so rest-inviting that Dan declared that it was hard to resist the temptation to "turn in" at once.

There were two chairs, a rude stand on which were a water-pitcher and a basin, a small mirror, and an old table.

The window boasted of a curtain; but the floor was carpetless, save for two well-worn rugs.

Dan, fearing lest Seth might refuse to hire this very swell apartment because of the suspicion that some of Ninety-four's men had agreed to pay a certain portion of the rental in order that it might be offered at an exceedingly low price, promptly announced his willingness to take the room, and when this had been done it seemed to Master Bartlett as if he was in duty bound to ratify the bargain.
1. Who was eager?
2. What was he eager to see?
3. What was he waiting on?
4. What did he insist on?
5. Who was his partner?
6. Who gave them the address?
7. How did they find things when they got there?
8. Where was the room?
9. How did the place look to them?
10. Who was the leader of the place?
11. What did she provide for them?
12. How did the clothes on it look?
13. What did he say was hard resisting?
14. How many seats were there?
15. What was on the stand?
16. Was the looking glass big?
17. Was the table old?
18. Was there carpet?
19. What was there in place of carpet?
20. What did he fear?
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answer:
1. Dan
2. new lodgings
3. certain matters
4. setting out
5. Seth
6. 'Lish Davis
7. exactly as stated
8. attic
9. comfortable and luxurious
10. Mrs. Hanson
11. a good bed
12. rest-inviting
13. to turn in
14. two
15. water-pitcher
16. no
17. yes
18. no
19. rugs
20. Seth might refuse the apartment