Q: Step into Pat Lundin's home and you'll be greeted by 500 smiling faces of dolls. Lundin, 82, describes herself as "doll crazy". And she's not alone.

As a member of Timeless Treasures Doll Club of Largo, she frequently meets with 25 other women who share her hobby. Once a month, they gather at the Palms of Largo to show off their latest finds and catch up on news in the world of doll collecting.

On Saturday, the club will hold the Palms of Largo Fifth Annual Doll Show. The program will include 37 vendors with both classic and contemporary dolls for sale.

"Timeless Treasures is a club that's open to doll lovers regardless of the age of the doll," said Judy Smith, president of the organization. "Some doll clubs require members have a certain number of antique dolls, but we don't. we make sure we are not terribly formal."

Smith, 71, is a retired schoolteacher who owns Judy's Doll Hospital, a part-time business she operates out of her home. She will have a table offering repair and appraisal services.

Smith firs began studying and collecting dolls in her early 20s,in Glassboro, New Jersey, she does not know how many dolls she owns, or how many repairs she has made over the years. But she does know the age of her oldest doll.

"She's 129," Smith said. "It is a German-made doll that belonged to my grandmother , and it sits in my living room."

The show is for both the beginner as well as the experienced collector, said Anita Munson, one of the show's organizers.

Over the years, Munson, 82, has learned how to identify a valuable doll. "Generally speaking porcelain dolls are the most valuable," she said. "But the porcelain will not be shiny."

Smith believes many people will attend to find out how much their dolls are worth. She wants them to know more.

"Because the dolls reflect what the children were wearing and doing at a particular period of time, they can be a great history lesson for children now," she said.

1. doll crazy
2. As a member of Timeless Treasures Doll Club
3. 25 other women
4. 500
5. Fifth Annual Doll Show
6. classic and contemporary dolls
7. yes
8. On Saturday
9. Once a month
10. Pat Lundin's home
11. 37
12. no
13. Judy Smith
14. unknown
15. repair and appraisal services
16. Judy's Doll Hospital
17. early 20s
18. she does not know
19. 129
20. German-made doll

Numbered questions:
1. What does Lundin describe herself as?
2. why?
3. Whoe does she meet with?
4. How many dolls does she have?
5. What will happen on Saturday?
6. What will be there?
7. will they be for sale?
8. When does the group meet?
9. How often?
10. where?
11. How many vendors will be at the show?
12. Do they need to be old dolls?
13. Who is the president of the club?
14. Will she have a table at the show?
15. What will she be offering?
16. She she do this for work?
17. When did she first start collecting?
18. How many dolls does she own?
19. what is her oldest?
20. who's was it?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter XXXVII

SECOND JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

Here was a nauseous draught for me. Having finished my tale, I turned to Gavin for sympathy; and, behold, he had been listening for the cannon instead of to my final words. So, like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun, in presence of which all other fires should go out. I was soured to see Gavin prove this, and then I could have laughed without mirth, for had not my bitterness proved it too?

"And now," I said, rising, "whether Margaret is to hold up her head henceforth lies no longer with me, but with you."

It was not to that he replied.

"You have suffered long, Mr. Ogilvy," he said. "Father," he added, wringing my hand. I called him son; but it was only an exchange of musty words that we had found too late. A father is a poor estate to come into at two and twenty.

"I should have been told of this," he said.

"Your mother did right, sir," I answered slowly, but he shook his head.

"I think you have misjudged her," he said. "Doubtless while my fa- -, while Adam Dishart lived, she could only think of you with pain; but after his death--"

"After his death," I said quietly, "I was still so horrible to her that she left Harvie without letting a soul know whither she was bound. She dreaded my following her." 1. Who is narrating?
2. Who is he speaking with?
3. What is their relationship?
4. Were they close?
5. When did they begin their relationship?
6. Had Gavin's mother been honest with him?
7. Who did Gavin presume his father to be?
8. IS he still alive?
9. Was Gavin told the truth before his death?
10. Was Mr. Ogilvy kind to Gavin's mother?
11. Was she delighted that he followed her?
12. Did Gavin sympathize with him?
13. Did Mr Ogilvy blame Gavin's mother for not telling him?
14. Did Gavin?
numbered_answers: 1. Mr. Ogilvy
2. Gavin
3. Father and son
4. no
5. at two and twenty
6. no
7. Adam Dishart
8. no
9. no
10. unknown
11. no
12. yes
13. no
14. yes

The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mulhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 18711918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did the Alemannian's language help create?
2. What part of Lothar's realm was given to his son?
3. Why didn't his kingdom last long?
Answer:
1. modern-day dialects
2. Lotharingia
3. unknown