There was a young woman who had a baby. She was very young. She had to learn how to feed the baby right. The doctor helped her with this. The doctor helped her with many things. Yesterday, the doctor had helped her try and teach the child to use the toilet. Today, she puts a bib on the baby to try to feed her. She tries to feed it with a frog shaped spoon. She tries to feed her a banana. She tries a rhyme, to get the child to have fun. The rhyme is about the cat that jumped over the moon. The doctor watches with a smile on his face. The doctor has a beard. The baby likes to play with the doctor's beard. The baby also likes to play with her rattle. Her rattle is shaped like a bull. It is a loud rattle. The baby still makes a mess, but she is drier than yesterday. The doctor says it is a good job. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who put a bib on the baby?
2. What did the woman have to learn?
3. Who helped her with this?
4. When did the doctor help her with potty training?
5. What did she put on the baby?
6. What shape was the spoon?
7. Did she feed the baby an orange?
8. What did she try to feed it?
9. Why did she try to rhyme?
10. Was the rhyme about a whale?
11. What did the cat jump over in the rhyme?
12. Was the doctor frowning?
13. Did the doctor shave his face?
14. What does the baby like to play with?
15. Is the rattle quiet?
16. What's the rattle shaped like?
17. What does the doctor say?
18. Is the baby neat?
Answer: 1. the young woman
2. to feed the baby right
3. the doctor
4. yesterday
5. a bib
6. the shape of a frog
7. no
8. a banana
9. to get the child to have fun
10. no
11. the moon
12. no
13. no
14. The doctor's beard and her rattle.
15. no
16. a bull
17. It's a good job.
18. It makes a mess

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.

The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal Service as an agency of the U.S. government.

The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world. The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The USPS still has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but now has to compete against private package delivery services, such as United Parcel Service and FedEx.

Since the early 1980s, many of the direct tax subsidies to the Post Office (with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters) have been reduced or eliminated in favor of indirect subsidies, in addition to the advantages associated with a government-enforced monopoly on the delivery of first-class mail. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume, after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a requirement exceeding that of other government and private organizations), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume, prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit. The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal year 2014 and $5.1 billion in 2015, and its revenue was $67.8 billion in 2014 and $68.9 billion in 2015. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Does the USPS have any competition?
2. Who?
3. Does the USPS change prices based on location?
4. What allows the USPS to exist?
5. Does it offer retirement benefits?
6. Do they make a profit?
7. How can they afford to offer their employees these benefits?
8. What caused customers' uses of their services to drop?
9. When was shipping at its busiest?
10. What physical thing do they have exclusive access to?
11. What service do they have exclusive access to?
12. Who was the first head of the organization?
13. Did they use his work for future iterations?
Answer: 1. Yes
2. United Parcel Service
3. No
4. United States Constitution.
5. Yes
6. No
7. Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act
8. recession-influenced declining mail volume
9. 2006
10. letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail"
11. first-class mail
12. Benjamin Franklin
13. Yes

CHAPTER ELEVEN.

TO THE RESCUE.

Elsie and Cora Ravenshaw were seated at a table in Willow Creek, with their mother and Miss Trim, repairing garments, one night in that same inclement January of which we have been writing.

Mr Ravenshaw was enjoying his pipe by the stove, and Louis Lambert was making himself agreeable. The old man was a little careworn. No news had yet been received of Tony or of Victor. In regard to the latter he felt easy; Victor could take care of himself, and was in good company, but his heart sank when he thought of his beloved Tony. What would he not have given to have had him smashing his pipe or operating on his scalp at that moment.

"It is an awful winter," observed Elsie, as a gust of wind seemed to nearly blow in the windows.

"I pity the hunters in the plains," said Cora. "They say a rumour has come that they are starving."

"I heard of that, but hope it is not true," observed Lambert.

"Oh! they always talk of starving," said old Ravenshaw. "No fear of 'em."

At that moment there was a sound of shuffling in the porch, the door was thrown open, and a gaunt, haggard man, with torn, snow-sprinkled garments, pale face, and bloodshot eyes, stood pictured on the background of the dark porch.

"Baptiste Warder!" exclaimed Lambert, starting up.

"Ay, what's left o' me; and here's the remains o' Winklemann," said Warder, pointing to the cadaverous face of the starving German, who followed him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did Mr Ravenshaw like?
2. Where?
3. Anyone else in the room?
4. Who?
5. what was he doing?
6. Who was at the table?
7. Where?
8. anyone else?
9. what were they doing?
10. Was it the summer?
11. Did anyone hear about Tony or Victor yet?
12. who did he worry more for?
13. why?
14. What did Elsie realize?
15. why did she realize this?
16. Was anyone worried about a group of people?
17. who was pitied?
18. Who felt bad for them?
19. Had anyone else heard about them?
20. Who walked in through the door?
Answer:
1. his pipe
2. by the stove
3. Yes
4. Louis Lambert
5. making himself agreeable
6. Elsie and Cora Ravenshaw
7. in Willow Creek
8. their mother
9. repairing garments
10. No
11. No
12. Tony
13. Victor could take care of himself
14. That it is an awful winter
15. a gust of wind nearly blew in the windows
16. Yes
17. hunters in the plains
18. Cora
19. Yes
20. Baptiste Warder