 
 <prompt> text: ```CHAPTER XVI. 

HAL FOR WATCH. 

"Leave am, you beast!" 

Dick Ferris look around with fear for face. 

Wen e see Hal, e face fall, and e leave the girl. 

"Wetin dey worry you!" e shout. 

"Na so. Wetin you mean dey treat dis girl like dat?" 

"You dey follow me," Ferris talk, dey ignore the question wey dem ask am. 

"If na so?" 

"You think say you sabi, abi?" Ferris talk dey sneer. 

"E be like say e get bad mind, ugly thing!" the girl talk, dey cry. "I wish dem go arrest am." 

"Shut up!" Ferris shout, dey face the girl. "You just hit me on purpose." 

"I no do am. We get right to dey play for dis alley; my mama talk am so." 

"You suppose dey arrest you for hitting the small girl," Hal talk. "I dey happy say I show up just in time to save am from more beating." 

"Good for you, mister!" one small boy wey dey near shout. "Give am one for eye!" 

"Yes, beat am well well, mister," some other people shout. 

Ferris face the crowd like animal wey dey vex. 

"Make una commot for here, all of una," e dey shout, "unless una wan make I beat una die." 

"Don't move," Hal talk. "E be like say you get more right for here pass am." 

"Na so!" Ferris talk, dey face Hal. "I wish say you go mind your business." 

"Don't let am talk to you like dat, mister," one of the small boys talk. "E no get reason to hit Katie." 

Ferris rush go meet the boy, and e dey slap am left and right. For middle of the beating, Hal grab the bully hand, and one second later Dick Ferris dey lie down for gutter. 

Answers to the questions:

1. Na who dey fear?
2. Wetin e call am?
3. Na who talk am?
4. Wetin Ferris dey hold?
5. She dey vex?
6. Wetin she call Ferris?
7. Na who side the crowd dey support?
8. Wey place dem suggest make e hit Ferris?
9. Ferris threaten dem back?
10. Wetin e threaten?
11. Wetin dem compare am to?
12. Na who e attack?
13. Na who come save the boy?
14. Wey place e grab Ferris?
15. Wey place e end up?
16. E don beat the small girl?
17. Why e dey vex with am?
18. Ferris think say she do am on purpose?
19. The girl gree?
20. Wey place dem jam themselves?``` <response>: 1. Dick Ferris
2. brute
3. Hal
4. one girl
5. yes
6. one mean, ugly thing
7. Hal
8. the eye
9. yes
10. hammering dem to death
11. one savage animal
12. one boy
13. Hal
14. by the arm
15. for gutter
16. yes
17. she run enta am
18. yes
19. no
20. for alley 