Problem: CHAPTER XVI

DICK AND DORA

"Oh, Dick, how lovely!"

"Weren't you afraid, Sam?"

"What a big flying machine, Tom!"

Such were the exclamations from Dora, Grace and Nellie, as all rushed forward to where the boys were alighting from the _Dartaway_. Soon they were shaking hands all around, and soon other girl students were coming up, to learn what the arrival of the flying machine meant.

"Well, we certainly had a great trip," said Dick.

"The wind was pretty strong," put in Sam.

"Strongest wind you ever saw!" declared Tom, stoutly. "Turned us over about 'steen times and rolled us into a regular ball."

"Oh, Tom, what an idea!" exclaimed Nellie, and began to laugh. "But weren't you afraid?" she went on anxiously.

"What, me? Never! But Sam was so afraid he shook off his shoes, and one of 'em dropped right on a cow, and----"

"Tom Rover!" burst out Grace. "What a story-teller you are!"

"Well, Grace, if you don't believe it, go and ask that cow," went on the fun-loving Rover, soberly. "It's lucky Sam has elastics on the shoes--to pull 'em back by. If he hadn't had----" Tom did not finish but shook his head mournfully.

"I am so glad you got here safely, Dick," said Dora, in a low voice. "But oh, do you think it is quite safe?" she went on, anxiously. "I--I don't want you to get hurt!"

"I guess it is safe enough, Dora," he replied, not wishing to alarm her. "It's like an auto--you've got to get used to it."
1. Who were speaking?
2. Who were getting down from the machine?
3. Who else?
4. Who wasn't afraid?
5. Who was?
6. What did he do?
7. Where did one fall?
8. Who didn't believe the story?
9. Who's afraid for the young men?
10. What's the machine like?
11. How was the flight?
12. What did it do?
13. What was it called?
14. What happened when they alighted?
Answer: 1. Dora, Grace and Nellie,
2. Sam and dick
3. Dick
4. Tom
5. sam
6. Shook off his show
7. On a cow
8. Grace
9. Dora
10. Big
11. Windy
12. rolled them into a ball
13. Dartaway
14. shook hands with everyone

Problem: Pester came running into the room. He came to a fast stop when he saw the dog. He'd seen a dog before, every cat has, and he used to live with a black dog named Henry, but he'd never seen a brown one before. It seemed strange to him, but not as strange as it was to see Linda the brown chicken in the living room last spring. That still confused him.

He thought he liked this dog, not because of the color, but because it was small. And it was so hairy. It was a like a mop that could run around. He jumped on his favorite chair and looked down as Maggie ran under it. She was kind of cute for a dog, Pester thought to himself. He layed down on the chair and pawed at her as she ran in a circle under it. He tapped her ears as she went by, and waved his tail like a flag trying to get her attention. After a little more of this, Pester curled up in a ball on the chair and took a nap.
1. Who came running into the room?
2. Is he human?
3. What is he?
4. What did he see?
5. was that the first one he saw?
6. what color is the dog?
7. who else did he see that was brown?
8. is she a dog?
9. what is she?
10. does he like this dog?
11. why?
12. anything other reason?
13. from where did he look at the dog?
14. did he like this chair?
15. does the dog have a name?
16. what is it?
17. do they play?
18. did the dog like that?
Answer: 1. Pester
2. No
3. a cat
4. the dog
5. No
6. brown
7. Linda
8. no
9. a chicken
10. possibly
11. because it was small
12. because it was hairy
13. a chair
14. yes
15. yes
16. Maggie
17. yes
18. yes

Problem: CHAPTER IX.

THE FIRE.

Raymond let the cattle browse about, while he went to work, cutting down some small, but yet pretty tall and bushy trees. He then brought up the team, and hooked a long chain into the ring which hung down from the middle of the yoke, upon the under side. The end of the chain trailed upon the ground, as the oxen came along, and Caleb was very much interested to see how they would trample along, any where, among the rocks, roots, mire, logs, bushes, stumps, and, in fact, over and through almost any thing, chewing their cud all the time, patient and unconcerned. When they were brought up near to one of the trees that had been cut down, Raymond would hook the chain around the butt end of it, and then, at his command, they would drag it out of its place in the line of the fence. After looking on for some time, Caleb began to think that he would go to work; and he went to a little tree, with a stem about as big round as his arm, and began to saw away upon it. He found that the saw would run very well indeed; and in a short time, he got the tree off, and then undertook to drag it to the fence.

Raymond was always a very silent man; he seldom spoke, unless to answer a question; and while Caleb had been watching him, when he first began to work, instead of talking with Caleb, as Caleb would have desired, he was all the time singing,
1. what was raymond doing?
2. what were the cows doing?
3. what was caleb interested to see?
4. how did the oxen act as they walked?
5. what did Raymond do when they go to a cut down tree?
6. what did he command the oxen to do then?
7. did Raymond talk a lot?
8. when did he talk?
9. what kind of trees did he cut?
10. were the oxen pick about where they walked?
11. what were some of the things they walked amoung?
12. what were they doing as they went along?
13. were they in a hurry?
14. what did Caleb do after watching?
15. what did he do then?
16. was it a big tree?
17. what did he start to do to the branch?
18. did the saw cut well?
19. was Caleb quiet like Raymond?
Answer:
1. cutting down trees
2. browsing about
3. how the oxen would trample along
4. patient
5. hook the chain around the butt end
6. drag it out of its place
7. no
8. to answer a question
9. tall and bushy trees
10. no
11. rocks, roots, mire
12. chewing their cud
13. no
14. he began to think that he would go to work
15. went to a little tree
16. no
17. saw away upon it
18. yes
19. no