Q: CHAPTER II.

CAUGHT BY THE TIDE.

JACK ran home.

"I thought you would have been in by two o'clock, Jack," his mother said reproachfully, "so as to see Lily before she went off to school again."

"So I should have done, mother, but I had to stick at the work until we had finished up to the water-line. Uncle Ben thought it was not worth while knocking off."

Jack's meal of bread and bacon was soon finished, then he waited a little until Lily had returned from school.

"Come on, Lil," he said, "I have been waiting to take you out with me."

"Be in by six," Mrs. Robson said.

"All right, mother! We are only just going down to the shore."

Near the little coast-guard station they came upon Bill Corbett.

"Can you come to-morrow, Jack?"

"Yes; uncle has agreed to do without me. What time are you going to start?"

"We will go out as late as we can, Jack. We can get down the creek till three anyhow, so at three o'clock you be ready down here."

"Joe is going, I suppose?"

"Oh, yes, he does to carry the cockles to the boat while we scrape them out. That is a nice bawley, that new one there; she only came in this tide. That is the boat Tom Parker has had built at Brightlingsea. He expects she is going to beat the fleet. She will want to be a rare good one if she does, and I don't think Tom is the man to get the most out of her anyhow."

1. JACK
2. two o'clock
3. to see Lily
4. bread and bacon
5. Lily
6. Mrs. Robson
7. the shore.
8. Bill Corbett.
9. Joe
10. to-morrow,
11. carry the cockles
12. Tom Parker
13. she is going to beat the fleet.
14. three o'clock

Numbered questions:
1. Who ran home?
2. When should he had been home?
3. Why?
4. What did he eat?
5. Who was he waiting for?
6. Who is his mom?
7. Where did they go?
8. Who did they meet?
9. Who is going?
10. When?
11. What will Joe do?
12. Whose boat?
13. What does he expect?
14. How late?

Q: A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape.

In Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. It was followed by a lot of universities opened as public universities in the 20th century such as Cairo University (1908), Alexandria University (1912), Assiut University (1928), Ain Shams University (1957), Helwan University (1959), Beni-Suef University (1963), Benha University (1965), Zagazig University (1978), Suez Canal University (1989), where tuition fees are totally subsidized by the Government.

In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments. Examples include the University of Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Ibadan, University of Benin, University of Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello University, Abia State University, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Gombe State University, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Federal University of Technology Yola, University of Maiduguri, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, University of Jos, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, University of Ilorin

In Kenya, the Ministry of Education controls all of the public universities. Students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. Students who meet the criteria determined annually by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) receive government sponsorship, as part of their university or college fee is catered for by the government. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board. They are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education.

1. yes
2. Nigeria
3. Public schools
4. State Governments
5. unknown
6. Egypt
7. a lot
8. Cairo University
9. no
10. Suez Canal University
11. in 975 AD
12. In Kenya
13. You need a minimum of C+
14. Complete the 8-4-4 system of education
15. yes
16. the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service
17. yes
18. private universities
19. not the national or subnational government

Numbered questions:
1. Does Africa have many universities?
2. Name one country with one?
3. What type of schools may be founded by the Federal government there?
4. What other group can found that type?
5. Are those schools completely free to residents there?
6. What African nation does have tuition-free schools?
7. How many schools are there?
8. Name one?
9. Is that the newest one?
10. Which is the newest one?
11. When was the first Egyptian university started?
12. Besides Egypt and Nigeria, where else are there public universities?
13. Is it easy to get in?
14. WHat sort of background do you need?
15. Is financial help available?
16. Who decides who gets it?
17. Are there options other than public schools?
18. What?
19. Who pays for them?

Q: CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.

AFTER-THOUGHTS.

"You are easily frightened, though," said Piero, with another scornful laugh. "My portrait is not as good as the original. But the old fellow _had_ a tiger look: I must go into the Duomo and see him again."

"It is not pleasant to be laid hold of by a madman, if madman he be," said Lorenzo Tornabuoni, in polite excuse of Tito, "but perhaps he is only a ruffian. We shall hear. I think we must see if we have authority enough to stop this disturbance between our people and your countrymen," he added, addressing the Frenchman.

They advanced toward the crowd with their swords drawn, all the quiet spectators making an escort for them. Tito went too: it was necessary that he should know what others knew about Baldassarre, and the first palsy of terror was being succeeded by the rapid devices to which mortal danger will stimulate the timid.

The rabble of men and boys, more inclined to hoot at the soldier and torment him than to receive or inflict any serious wounds, gave way at the approach of signori with drawn swords, and the French soldier was interrogated. He and his companions had simply brought their prisoners into the city that they might beg money for their ransom: two of the prisoners were Tuscan soldiers taken in Lunigiana; the other, an elderly man, was with a party of Genoese, with whom the French foragers had come to blows near Fivizzano. He might be mad, but he was harmless. The soldier knew no more, being unable to understand a word the old man said. Tito heard so far, but he was deaf to everything else till he was specially addressed. It was Tornabuoni who spoke.

1. Tito
2. What the others knew about Baldassarre
3. Piero,
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. brigning prisoners to the city
8. for ransom
9. no
10. three
11. two were soldiers and one was an elderly man
12. no
13. no
14. Genoa
15. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who is easily frightened?
2. What did Tito want to know?
3. who was going into the Duomo again?
4. Did they draw their weapons when walking towards the crowd?
5. did Tito go to?
6. Did the crowd get out of their way?
7. what was the French soldier doing beforehand?
8. why?
9. Were the men around the soldier likely to hurt him?
10. how many captees did the French soldier bring to town?
11. who were they?
12. was the elderly man a risk to anyone?
13. Did he seem sane?
14. Where was he from?
15. Could the French soldier comprehend his language?