Q: CHAPTER XV.

AN UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL.

It was really the princess who saved aunt Dorcas's home from destruction. Had she not seen Dan Fernald, as he made his way through the orchard, the barn would most likely have been in a blaze before Joe or Plums were aware of the fact.

Thanks to her warning, Joe saw the smoke before the fire gathered headway, and when he arrived on the scene, the flames had but just fastened upon the side of the barn.

Plums, aroused to something like activity by the knowledge of danger, followed Joe with remarkable promptness, and the amount of water thus brought by both was sufficient to extinguish what, a few moments later, would have been a conflagration.

Not until he had pulled the charred sticks from beneath the end of the barn, and assured himself every spark had been drowned out, did Joe speak, and then it was to relieve his mind by making threats against the would-be incendiary.

"It's all well enough for a woman like aunt Dorcas to tell about doin' good to them what tries to hurt you, for she couldn't so much as put up her hands. If you keep on forgivin' duffers like Dan Fernald, you're bound to be in such scrapes as this all the time. What he needed was a sound thumpin', when he begun talkin' so rough to aunt Dorcas; then he wouldn't dared to try a game of this kind. When I get hold of him again, I'll make up for lost time."

Answer the following questions:
1. Whose house was saved?
2. Who saved it?
3. Did she give a warning to someone?
4. Who?
5. Who wanted to destroy the house?
6. Was there flames on the side of the barn?
7. Who was the other person who helped Joe in putting out the fire?
8. How did they extinguish it?
9. What would it have been if they would't extinguish it?
10. Did Joe make sure there was no spark left at all?
A: 1. aunt Dorcas
2. the princess
3. yes
4. Joe
5. Dan Fernald
6. yes
7. Plums
8. with water
9. a conflagration
10. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVIII

BLAND MAKES A SACRIFICE

Sylvia was sitting by the hearth in Ethel West's drawing-room, her neatly shod feet on the fender, her low chair on the fleecy rug, and she made a very dainty and attractive picture. She felt the cold and hated discomfort of any kind, though it was characteristic of her that she generally succeeded in avoiding it. Ethel sat near by, watching her with calmly curious eyes, for Sylvia was looking pensive. Mrs. Lansing was talking to Stephen West on the opposite side of the large room.

"How is Edgar getting on?" Sylvia asked. "I suppose you hear from him now and then."

Ethel guessed where the question led and responded with blunt directness.

"Doesn't George write to you?"

"Not often. Herbert has just got a letter, but there was very little information in it; George is not a brilliant correspondent. I thought Edgar might have written by the same mail."

"As it happens, he did," said Ethel. "He describes the cold as fierce, and gives some interesting details of his sensations when the warmth first comes back to his half-frozen hands or limbs; then he adds a vivid account of a blizzard that George and he nearly got lost in."

"Things of that kind make an impression on a new-comer," Sylvia languidly remarked. "One gets used to them after a while. Did he say anything else?"

"There was an enthusiastic description of a girl he has met; he declares she's a paragon. This, of course, is nothing new, but it's a little astonishing that he doesn't seem to contemplate making love to her in his usual haphazard manner. She seems to have inspired him with genuine respect."

1. Who almost got lost in a bad snowstorm?
2. Who told of the snow?
3. What is her last name?
4. Who was she with?
5. Where were they?
6. Was anybody else there?
7. Who?
8. What were they doing?
9. Were they in the same part of the house?
10. Where?
11. Who did Sylvia inquire about?
12. Does she get letters from George?
13. Did anybody get something in the mail?
14. Was his correspondence informative?
15. Was he in a warm place?
16. Who was with him?
17. Was anyone else mentioned in the correspondence?
18. How is she described?
19. Does he want to have relations with her?
20. What does she inspire in him?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. George and Edgar
2. Ethel
3. West
4. Sylvia
5. Ethel West's drawing-room
6. yes
7. Mrs. Lansing and Stephen West
8. talking
9. yes
10. the opposite side of the large room
11. Edgar
12. Not often
13. Herbert
14. no
15. no
16. Edgar
17. a girl
18. a paragon
19. no
20. genuine respect

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(Mental Floss) -- Over the centuries, people have had some very good reasons to dress up like a member of the opposite sex.

After record-setting Olympics athlete Stella Walsh died in 1980, it was revealed that she had indeed been a man.

And I'm not talking about people who live this way out of personal preference, or those who dress up for theater and entertainment.

Here are just five examples.

1. Cross-dressing to join the army

Until recently, women have rarely been allowed to serve as soldiers.

So what was a gal to do if she wanted to serve her country? Naturally, disguise herself as a man and join the troops.

At least 400 Civil War soldiers were women in drag. These included Union Army soldier "Frank Thompson" (also known as Sarah Edmonds), whose small frame and feminine mannerisms (rather than causing suspicion) made her an ideal spy, as she could spy on the Confederates disguised as... a woman!

She wasn't the first woman to don a male disguise and join the army, though. During the Revolutionary War, women fought as men on both sides.

Hannah Snell, for example, joined the British army to find her husband, who had walked out on her to enlist.

Once her true sex was discovered (thanks to a pesky groin injury), she became a national celebrity in Britain, and made a post-war career of performing in bars as the "Female Warrior." Mental Floss: The Confederacy's plan to conquer Latin America

2. Cross-dressing to keep a royal family together

1. Name the athlete who died and was then revelead that she was a man?
2. What year?
3. How many civil war soliders were women in drag?
4. Who was Frank Thompson in "real"?
5. Was she the first woman to do a male disguise?
6. During what war did women fight as men?
7. Name a woman who joined the British Army?
8. and why did she do that?
9. what led to the discovery of her gender?
10. and what was she known as after?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Stella Welsh
2. 1980
3. at least 400
4. Sarah Edmonds
5. no
6. revolutionary
7. Hannah Snell
8. to find her husband
9. groin injury
10. the Female Warrior