input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER TEN. 

PERPLEXITIES--OUR HUNTERS PLAN THEIR ESCAPE--UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION-- THE TABLES TURNED--CRUSOE MOUNTS GUARD--THE ESCAPE. 

Dick Varley sat before the fire ruminating. We do not mean to assert that Dick had been previously eating grass. By no means. For several days past he had been mentally subsisting on the remarkable things that he heard and saw in the Pawnee village, and wondering how he was to get away without being scalped; he was now chewing the cud of this intellectual fare. We therefore repeat emphatically--in case any reader should have presumed to contradict us--that Dick Varley sat before the fire _ruminating_! 

Joe Blunt likewise sat by the fire along with him, ruminating too, and smoking besides. Henri also sat there smoking, and looking a little the worse of his late supper. 

"I don't like the look o' things," said Joe, blowing a whiff of smoke slowly from his lips, and watching it as it ascended into the still air. "That blackguard Mahtawa is determined not to let us off till he gits all our goods, an' if he gits them, he may as well take our scalps too, for we would come poor speed in the prairies without guns, horses, or goods." 

Dick looked at his friend with an expression of concern. "What's to be done?" said he. 

"Ve must escape," answered Henri; but his tone was not a hopeful one, for he knew the danger of their position better than Dick. 

"Ay, we must escape; at least we must try," said Joe; "but I'll make one more effort to smooth over San-it-sa-rish, an' git him to snub that villain Mahtawa."  1. Who was in front of the flames?
2. Where did Dick have an experience a few days before?
3. What was on his mind?
4. Who was there with him?
5. What was he hoping would not happen before he got away?
6. What was he hoping would not happen before he got away?
7. Was Joe optimistic?
8. What else besides sitting by the fire, was Blunt doing?
9. Who is the guard?
10. Who felt the best option is to get away?
11. Who is holding them captive?
12. Who agrees with Henri about getting away?
13. What will he try one last time before pursuing their plan?
numbered_answers: 1. Dick Varley
2. the Pawnee village
3. The events of the past several days
4. Joe Blunt
5. being scalped
6. Getting scalped
7. No
8. smoking
9. unknown
10. Henri
11. That blackguard Mahtawa
12. Joe
13. An  effort to smooth over San-it-sa-rish

input: CHAPTER XXXII 

It was the eve of the reopening of Parliament. Maraton, who had been absent from London--no one knew where--during the last six weeks, had suddenly reappeared. Once more he had invited the committee of the Labour Party to meet at his house. His invitation was accepted, but it was obvious that this time their attitude towards the man who welcomed them was one of declared and pronounced hostility. Graveling was there, with sullen, evil face. He made no attempt to shake hands with Maraton, and he sat at the table provided for them with folded arms and dour, uncompromising aspect. Dale came late and he, too, greeted Maraton with bluff unfriendliness. Borden's attitude was non-committal. Weavel shook hands, but his frown and manner were portentous. Culvain, the diplomat of the party, was quiet and reserved. David Ross alone had never lost his attitude of unwavering fidelity. He sat at Maraton's left hand, his head a little drooped, his eyes almost hidden beneath his shaggy grey eyebrows, his lower lip protuberant. He had, somehow, the air of a guarding dog, ready to spring into bitter words if his master were touched. 

"Gentlemen," Maraton began, when at last they were all assembled, "I have asked you, the committee who were appointed to meet me on my arrival England, to meet me once more here on the eve of the reopening of Parliament." 

There was a grim silence. No one spoke. Their general attitude was one of suspicious waiting. 

"You all know," Maraton went on, "with what ideas I first came to England. I found, however, that circumstances here were in many respects different from anything I had imagined. You all know that I modified my plans. I decided to adopt a middle course."  1. Who had been gone from London?
2. Did people know his whereabouts?
3. How long was he gone?
4. Did he show back up?
5. What was reopening the next day?
6. Who arrived tardy to the event?
7. Was he friendly with Maraton?
8. Who was considered to be the ambassador of the gathering?
9. Who sat to the left of Maraton?
10. Did he have red eyebrows?
11. What color were they? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Maraton
2. no
3. six weeks
4. yes
5. Parliament
6. Dale
7. no
8. no
9. David Ross
10. no
11. grey

Q: When Graham was a little boy, he really like giraffes. They were his favorite animal to see at the zoo. He liked giraffes more than elephants, pandas, tigers or lions. He dreamed of going to Africa to see giraffes in the wild. He told his family how much he liked them and they made sure he had plenty of books about giraffes. At school, he often wrote his reports about giraffes. He even painted his room with spots to look like a giraffe. When he got older, he went to school to study giraffes and other animals. Finally, during his final year of school, he went to Africa to study giraffes in their home. 

While there he met many people who also liked giraffes. He liked seeing how tall the giraffes were. He found that their homes were being destroyed by people using the land. Graham started an organization which raised money to help buy land for the giraffes to live on. Graham used everything he knew about giraffes to teach other people. He gave speeches, wrote books, made signs and sent letters telling people about the giraffes' home being destroyed.

Answer the following questions:
1. What animal does Graham like?
2. Where did he see them?
3. Where did he want to travel?
4. Why?
5. Did he tell his relatives that he cared for these animals?
6. What did his relatives make certain he had a lot of?
7. Were giraffes eventually involved in his studies?
8. Where were his studies done?
9. Was that done in his last year of schooling?
10. What did he discover about the the animals' habitat there?
11. By whom?
12. Who were using what?
13. What did Graham initiate?
14. That did what?
15. Why?
16. For what purpose?
A:
1. giraffes
2. the zoo
3. Africa
4. to see giraffes in the wild
5. Yes.
6. books about giraffes
7. Yes.
8. Africa
9. Yes.
10. it was destroyed
11. by people
12. the land
13. an organization
14. raised money
15. to buy land
16. for giraffes to live on