Q: CHAPTER III.

THE NIGHT-WATCHERS.

What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye.

"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse."

The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me."

1. green
2. No
3. the back of the Tenements
4. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it
5. Beattie
6. Two
7. Jamie Don
8. Ferrets
9. Beattie
10. No
11. Yes
12. The right-minded
13. as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,
14. Yes
15. The caddis
16. Margaret
17. No
18. He likes it
19. colored nightcaps and corduroys
20. The little minister

Numbered questions:
1. What color is the top of the church?
2. Is it short?
3. Who behaves better?
4. Why?
5. Who killed himself?
6. How many attempts did it take?
7. Who never had a wife?
8. What pets did he keep?
9. Who felt the church was always staring at him?
10. Was he the only one?
11. Did someone else think differently about it?
12. Who?
13. Who did they see it?
14. Did the area have an odor?
15. Of what?
16. Who felt this way?
17. Did she think it was normal?
18. Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?
19. What are the people who weave things wearing?
20. Who tried to look tough and elderly?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Maryland () is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are "Old Line State", the "Free State", and the "Chesapeake Bay State". The state is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria of France.

One of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maryland is considered to be the birthplace of religious freedom in America, when it was formed by George Calvert in the early 17th century as an intended refuge for persecuted Catholics from England. George Calvert was the first Lord of Baltimore and the first English proprietor of the then-Maryland colonial grant. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and played a pivotal role in the founding of Washington, D.C., which was established on land donated by the state.

Maryland is one of the smallest U.S. states in terms of area, as well as one of the most densely populated, with around six million residents. , Maryland had the highest median household income of any state, owing in large part to its close proximity to the nation's capital and a highly diversified economy spanning manufacturing, services, and biotechnology. 1. What state is talked about?
2. How many states/cities does it border?
3. Which one borders it to the east?
4. Is it large?
5. Who was its namesake?
6. Who founded the colony?
7. When?
8. What was it known for starting?
9. What was located on donated space from the state?
10. Are there a lot of people per area?
11. How many people live there?
12. How many nicknames does it have?
numbered_answers: 1. Maryland
2. 5 altogether
3. Delaware
4. no
5. Old Line State
6. George Calvert
7. in the early 17th century
8. religious freedom in America
9. Washington, D.C
10. yes
11. around six million residents
12. Three

Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket -- anything with a round ball, I was useless," he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England. It was a mountain bike he received for his 15thbirthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon. The following year he met John Ridgway and started to work as a teacher at Ridgway's school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway's cold--waterexploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures; he decided that this would be his future. In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long--distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his sled up and over the rocky mountains. Saunders has become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was Bill always good at sports?
2. Was he usually picked last for teams?
3. What changed him?
4. how old was he?
5. where did he start cycling?
6. with friends?
7. Did he start exercising with a friend?
8. when did he run a marathon?
9. where did he start teaching?
10. at what kind of school?
11. what did he become most interested in there?
12. when did he first go on a North POle trip?
13. did he see a polar bear?
14. Was he the oldest person to ski ot the north pole?
15. the youngest?
16. how did he get up the mountains?
17. which British citizen has skied more of the North Pole than him?
Answer:
1. no
2. yes
3. a mountain bike
4. 15
5. in a nearby fores
6. no
7. yes
8. At the age of 18
9. in Scotland
10. adventure
11. North Pole explorers and adventures
12. In 2001
13. yes
14. no
15. yes
16. pulling his sled
17. unknown