Question: Question:
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CHAPTER XXI 

A BOB SLED RACE 

"Whoop! hurrah! it's snowing!" 

Thus shouted Tom one day, as he burst into the library of the Hall, where Dick, Sam and a number of others were perusing books and the latest magazines. 

"Hard?" queried Sam, dropping the magazine he held. 

"No, but steady. Peleg Snuggers says it is going to be a heavy fall, and he generally knows." 

"And he loves snowstorms so," put in Fred, with a laugh. "Do you remember the time we made a big fort and had a regular battle?" 

"Indeed I do!" cried Larry. "It was great! We ought to have something of that sort this winter." 

"I was hoping we'd get skating before it snowed," put in Songbird. 

"Well, we can't have all the good things at once," answered Dick. "I think a heavy snowstorm is jolly. Somehow, when it snows I always feel like whistling and singing." 

"And I feel like making up verses," murmured the poet of the school, and went on: 

"Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow, Coming down when the wind does blow. Coming down both day and night, Leaving the earth a wonderful sight! Oh, the snow, the heavenly snow!----" 

"Wetting our feet wherever we go!" 

continued Tom, and added: 

"Oh, the snow, When the wind doth blow, It sets a pace And hits our face And we are froze Down to the toes And in the slush, That's just like mush, We cannot stop, But go ker-flop!" 

"Tom, the first thing you know, you'll be taking Songbird's laurels away from him," observed Larry. 
1. Who thinks a heavy snowstorm is jolly?
2. What does snow make him feel like doing?
3. Who said it made them feel like making up verses?
4. What did Songbird wish?
5. Who ran into the house yelling that it was snowing?
6. What room did he go into?
7. Were people in there?
8. What were they doing?
9. Who dropped a magazine?
10. What did he ask of Tom?
11. Was he asking about the snowfall?
12. Who loves snowstorms?
13. Who says it's going to be a heavy snowfall?
14. What did Fred want to know if Larry remembered?
15. Did Larry remember it?
16. Did he remember it fondly?
17. What did he say they should do this winter?
18. Who made up rhyming poems about the snow?
19. What did Larry tell Tom he'd be taking from Songbird?
20. Who spoke of having wet feet everywhere?

Numbered answers:
1. Dick.
2. whistling and singing."
3. the poet of the school,
4. unknown
5. Tom
6. the library of the Hall,
7. yes
8. perusing books and the latest magazines.
9. Sam
10. "Hard?"
11. "Whoop! hurrah! it's snowing
12. tom
13. peleg Snuggers
14. the time they made a big fort and had a regular battle
15. yes
16. yes
17. something of that sort
18. the poet of the school
19. Songbird's laurels
20. Tom,


Question:
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CHAPTER XVI. 

"WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES." 

Monsieur de Vivonne had laid his ambuscade with discretion. With a closed carriage and a band of chosen ruffians he had left the palace a good half-hour before the king's messengers, and by the aid of his sister's gold he had managed that their journey should not be a very rapid one. On reaching the branch road he had ordered the coachman to drive some little distance along it, and had tethered all the horses to a fence under his charge. He had then stationed one of the band as a sentinel some distance up the main highway to flash a light when the two courtiers were approaching. A stout cord had been fastened eighteen inches from the ground to the trunk of a wayside sapling, and on receiving the signal the other end was tied to a gate-post upon the further side. The two cavaliers could not possibly see it, coming as it did at the very curve of the road, and as a consequence their horses fell heavily to the ground, and brought them down with them. In an instant the dozen ruffians who had lurked in the shadow of the trees sprang out upon them, sword in hand; but there was no movement from either of their victims. De Catinat lay breathing heavily, one leg under his horse's neck, and the blood trickling in a thin stream down his pale face, and falling, drop by drop, on to his silver shoulder-straps. Amos Green was unwounded, but his injured girth had given way in the fall, and he had been hurled from his horse on to the hard road with a violence which had driven every particle of breath from his body. 
1. What was the driver ordered to do?
2. where?
3. Who was travelling?
4. and?
5. Where we they coming from?
6. Did they travel quickly?
7. Who approached the travellers?
8. Did they mean the travellers harm?
9. Did the two parties meet amicably?
10. How many swordarms were there?
11. Did the stricken horsemen fight back?
12. What were the horsemen's names?
13. and?
14. How were the horsemen brought down?
15. Had Green any air in his lungs?

Numbered answers:
1. drive some little distance
2. along the branch road
3. Monsieur de Vivonne
4. a band of chosen ruffians
5. the palace
6. no
7. two courtiers
8. unknown
9. no
10. a dozen
11. no
12. De Catinat
13. Amos Green
14. A stout cord had been fastened eighteen inches from the ground
15. no


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(CNN) -- A conservative billionaire businessman and a former center-left president will face off in a runoff election in Chile's presidential race, based on official early results released Sunday. 

With more than 98 percent of polling stations counted, billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera led ex-president Eduardo Frei with 44 percent of the vote to Frei's 30 percent, Chile's interior ministry reported. 

"This is a victory for all the Chileans who want change," Pinera said Sunday night. 

Frei began campaigning for the second-round immediately, asking in a speech for the supporters of the two other candidates who had their presidential ambitions dashed to join his cause. 

Frei said if he is elected, women and young people will have an important role in his government. 

He explicitly asked for those who voted for Marco Enriquez-Ominami and Jorge Arrate, who were eliminated in Sunday's ballot, to vote for him in the runoff. 

In a concession speech, Enriquez-Ominami said that he would not endorse either candidate. 

The winner will follow the footsteps of a very popular president, Michelle Bachelet, who will be leaving office with high approval ratings for steering the country through the global economic downturn, and promoting progressive social reforms. Under Chile's constitutional term limits, a president cannot run for a second consecutive term. 

Bachelet endorsed Frei, a member of her same left-leaning coalition, but another leftist candidate who ran as an independent -- Enriquez-Ominami -- made an impressive run, pulling in 20 percent of the vote and splitting votes for the ruling party. 
1. whose footsteps will the winner follow?
2. does she have high approval ratings?
3. What country is the article about?
4. Who is the billionaire?
5. Are presidents allowed to run for a second term?
6. What percent does frei have?
7. Who are the other two candidates?
8. What will frei do if elected?
9. who will not endorse the candidates?
10. what did Michelle do?
11. and?
12. who did she endorse?
13. was Frei ever a president?
14. how much is pinera leading by?
15. what is Frei promoting?
16. who did he say will have a role?
17. how many stations have been counted?
18. what day are the results from?
19. who began campaigning immediately?
20. who is the leftist who ran as independant?


Answer: Numbered answers:
1. Michelle Bachelet
2. Yes
3. Chile
4. Sebastian Pinera
5. No
6. 30 percent
7. Marco Enriquez-Ominami and Jorge Arrate
8. women and young people will have an important role in his government.
9. Enriquez-Ominami
10. steered the country through the global economic downturn
11. promoted progressive social reforms
12. Frei
13. Yes
14. 14 percent
15. change
16. women and young people
17. more than 98 percent
18. Sunday.
19. Frei
20. Frei