Problem: CHAPTER XI

OVERHEARD IN THE SUMMER-HOUSE

"Dave, what do you think! I saw Link Merwell this morning!"

It was Laura who spoke, as she burst into her brother's room, where the youth was looking over the things he expected to take with him on his trip West.

"You saw Link Merwell!" cried Dave, dropping some collars he held in his hand. "Where?"

"Down on Main Street, near the post-office."

"Did he speak to you?"

"Oh, no, the minute he noticed that I saw him he hurried out of sight around the corner. I followed to the corner, but when I got there he had gone."

"Was Job Haskers with him?"

"I didn't see him."

"Humph! This is interesting, to say the least," mused Dave. He thought of what Nat Poole had told him, and of what Merwell and Haskers had attempted at the Morr homestead. "I'll have to look into this," he added, aloud.

"Oh, Dave, do you think he'll try to do something more round here--or at the jewelry works?"

"I'll warn Mr. Wadsworth, Laura, and he can notify the police. But it's queer Merwell should show himself, knowing there is a warrant out for his arrest. Weren't you mistaken?"

"I don't think so. Of course he had on a slouch hat, drawn down over his eyes, and an unusual suit of clothing, but I am pretty certain it was Merwell."

"Then Haskers must be here, too. They travel together." Dave heaved a sigh. "It's too bad! I wish they were in China, or at the North Pole!"
1. Who saw Link Merwell?
2. Where?
3. Was he alone?
4. Who did Laura tell this information to?
5. Where was he at the time?
6. What was he doing at the time?
7. Where is he going?
8. Who is going to talk to Mr. Wadsworth?
9. Was the person wearing a hat?
10. Did she talk to him?
Answer: 1. Laura
2. On Main Street
3. yes
4. Dave
5. in his room
6. looking over things to pack
7. to the West
8. Dave
9. yes
10. no

Q: Dallas (CNN) -- Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs remained in critical condition in a Texas hospital on Tuesday, but was not in a coma and is expected to recover, state prison officials said.

Jeffs fell ill while fasting in a prison in Palestine, Texas, where he is serving a life-plus-20-year term for sexual assault, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said. But while a source familiar with Jeffs' condition told CNN Monday that the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was in a coma, Clark said Tuesday that Jeffs was conscious.

"He's somewhat sedated, but he is responsive," Clark wrote.

And Michelle Lyons, another press officer for the department, said Jeffs "is expected to make a full recovery." Lyons said that in addition to not eating, he had "bigger issues that required medical attention."

Prison officials have not elaborated on those conditions, citing inmate privacy rules.

Jeffs was convicted in early August of the aggravated sexual assaults of a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl he claimed were his "spiritual wives." His church is a breakaway Mormon sect that practices polygamy, which the mainstream Mormon Church renounced more than a century ago.

Jeffs was sent to a hospital in Tyler on Sunday night and was in critical but stable condition Tuesday. He told officials at the Powledge prison unit that he was not on a hunger strike, but had been "fasting," Clark said.

"While he definitely is eating and drinking some, it just wasn't as much as he should," Clark said.

Answer the following questions:
1. why couldn't officials elaborate on Fells "conditions"
2. when was he convicted?
3. what is he the leader of?
A: 1. privacy rules.
2. unknown
3. a breakaway Mormon sect

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. Most people have a bad night when they can not sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall sleep. This problem is called insomnia. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to another to make them sleep. Benjaming Franklin, the famous stateman and inventor ,had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Lousis XIV of France had 13 beds and hoped that he could fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side on the end of the bed!

1. How many hours of sleep do Americans average?
2. does everyone sleep this amount?
3. Do you sleep more the older you get?
4. less?
5. how much?
6. At what age does that happen?
7. Do americans have sleep problems?
8. how many?
9. what is this diagnosed as?
10. Is that new?
11. how do you know?
12. like who?
13. did he try anything to sleep?
14. what?
15. did he sleep in them all?
16. how?
17. did anyone have more than 4?
18. who?
19. how many?
20. Anyone else?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. seven to eight hours
2. no
3. no
4. yes
5. 6.5 hours
6. After the age of fifty
7. yes
8. one in three Americans
9. insomnia
10. no
11. famous people in history had insomnia.
12. Benjaming Franklin
13. yes
14. he had 4 beds
15. yes
16. moved from one to another
17. yes
18. King Lousis XIV
19. 13 beds
20. Mark Twain

Problem: CHAPTER XXVIII

DREAMS AND DRESS-MAKING

Tato was now one of the family. They left Taormina the next day, and Frascatti drove all the girls in his victoria to the station.

"You must come again, signorini," said he, looking regretful at their departure. "Next year the fountain of the ice cream soda will be in operation, like those you have in Chicago, which is America. Our culture increases with our civilization. It is even hinted that Il Duca is to abandon our island forever. He has been interesting to us, but not popular, and you will not miss him when you come again to find he is not here. If this time he has caused you an inconvenience, I am sorry. It is regrettable, but,--"

"But it is so!" said Patsy, laughing.

Tato was again transformed. Patricia, who was the smallest of the three nieces, though not especially slim, had quickly altered one of her own pretty white gowns to fit the child, and as she was deft with her needle and the others had enthusiastically assisted her, Tato now looked more like a fairy than ever.

It was really wonderful what a suitable dress could do for the tiny Sicilian maid. She had lost her free and boyish manner and become shy and retiring with strangers, although when in the society of the three nieces she was as sweet and frank as ever. She wore her new gown gracefully, too, as if well accustomed to feminine attire all her life. The only thing now needed, as Patsy said, was time in which to grow her hair, which had always been cut short, in boyish fashion.
1. Where did they leave?
2. Where to?
3. Who was driving?
4. Who did he drive?
5. Did anyone laugh?
6. Who?
7. About what?
8. What did Tato look like?
9. Why?
10. Did she wear it well?
11. What did she still had to do to complete the transformation?
12. What would it take to do that?
13. Was style was it now?
Answer:
1. Taormina
2. to the station
3. Frascatti
4. all the girls
5. Yes
6. Patsy
7. unknown
8. like a fairy
9. she was wearing a pretty white gown
10. Yes
11. grow her hair
12. time
13. cut short, in boyish fashion