Question: In 1943, when I was 4, my parents moved from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Fairbanks, Alaska, where adventure was never very far away. 

We arrived in the summer, just in time to enjoy the midnight sun. All that sunlight was fantastic for Mom's vegetable garden. Working in the garden at midnight tended to throw her timing off, so she didn't care much about my bedtime. 

Dad was a Railway Express agent and Mom was his clerk. That left me in a mess. I usually managed to find some trouble to get into. Once I had a little Are going in the dirt basement of a hotel. I had tried to light a barrel of paint but couldn't really get a good fire going. The smoke got pretty bad, though, and when 1 made my exit, a crowd and the police were there to greet me. The policemen took my matches and drove me 

Mom and Dad were occupied in the garden and Dad told the police to keep me, and they did! I had a tour of the prison before Mom rescued me. 1 hadn't turned 5 yet. 

As I entered kindergarten, the serious cold began to set in. Would it surprise you to know that I soon left part of my tongue on a metal handrail at school? 

As for Leonhard Seppala, famous as a dog sledder , I think I knew him well because I was taken for a ride with his white dog team one Sunday. At the time I didn't realize what a superstar he was, but I do remember the ride well. I was wrapped heavily and well sheltered from the freezing and blowing weather. 

In 1950, we moved back to Coeur d'Alene, but we got one more Alaskan adventure when Leonhard invited us eight years later by paying a visit to Idaho to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska. 1. How old was the person when they moved?
2. in what year?
3. Where did they move to?
4. Was it a boring place?
5. What was good for the garden?
6. What kind?
7. Was this person a micheavous kid?
8. WHat happened one day?
9. did it work?
10. what happened instead?
11. Did he get caught?
12. by who?
13. Did they stay in Alaska?
14. where did they go?
15. how long did they stay in Alaska?
16. what happened 8 years after the move?
17. foir what?
18. Wten?at was the weather like in Kindergard
19. What happened to the handrail?
20. What did dad tell the police when I was brought home? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Four
2. 1943
3. Fairbanks, Alaska
4. no
5. mom's garden
6. vegetable
7. yes
8. I had tried to light a barrel of pain
9. no
10. smoke got pretty bad
11. yes
12. a crowd and the police
13. no
14. Coeur d'Alene
15. 7 years
16. Leonhard visited Idaho
17. to attend a gathering of former neighbors of Alaska
18. cold
19. left part of my tongue on it
20. to keep me


Question: (CNN) -- Only two Republican presidential candidates will appear on the ballot in Virginia next year, regardless of how many are in the race. 

Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will have the Dominion State all to themselves. Supporters of Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and Michele Bachmann will have to be content with yard signs or donations as ways of cheering on their favorite would-be nominee. 

That's because their campaigns failed to gain the requisite 10,000 signatures. It is, to be sure, a self-inflicted wound, a measure of some organizational chaos. But it is also a function of illogically restrictive local laws. They not only impede ballot access but end up denying open representative democracy to operate on the road to the Oval Office. 

The United States is the only nation in the world, save Switzerland, that does not have uniform federal ballot access laws, according to Ballot Access News, a website run by Richard Winger that is dedicated to the issue. This may reflect the country's closely held federalism, but it can create chaos in a presidential year. In many cases, the rules are imposed by state party bosses who are less interested in democracy than in rigging the system to benefit their favored candidates. 

Take, for example, my home state of New York. It votes reliably Democratic in presidential years, at least since Ronald Reagan thrashed Walter Mondale in 1984. But the state's primary delegates can still be a prize in a protracted Republican nomination fight. In 1999, John McCain had to sue to even have his name appear on the ballot alongside George W. Bush because the Republican state party chair and his committee essentially decided that Bush would be their nominee without the inconvenience of putting it to a vote. Local laws allowed them to restrict ballot access until public pressure and a court injunction overruled their attempted end-run around democracy. Each presidential cycle, the corrupt kabuki continues.  1. How many Republicans candidates are on the ballot?
2. In which state? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Two
2. Dominion State


Question: CHAPTER XVI. 

HAL ON THE WATCH. 

"Let up there, you brute!" 

Dick Ferris looked around with a startled air. 

When he caught sight of Hal his face fell, and he released the girl. 

"What, you!" he exclaimed. 

"Exactly. What do you mean by treating this girl so rudely?" 

"You are following me," went on Ferris, ignoring the question which had been put to him. 

"What if I am?" 

"You think you're smart, don't you?" sneered Ferris. 

"He's a mean, ugly thing!" put in the girl, between her sobs. "I wish he was arrested." 

"Shut up!" roared Ferris, turning to her. "You ran into me on purpose." 

"I didn't. We've got a right to coast in this alley; mamma said so." 

"You ought to be arrested for striking the little girl," said Hal. "I am awfully glad I arrived in the nick of time to save her from more punishment." 

"Good fer you, mister!" cried a small youth standing near. "Give him one in der eye!" 

"Yes, do him up, mister," cried several others. 

Ferris turned upon them like a savage animal. 

"Get out of here, every one of you," he howled, "unless you want to be hammered to death." 

"Don't you move," said Hal. "You evidently have more right here than he has." 

"Indeed!" said Ferris, turning to Hal. "I wish you would keep your nose out of my affairs." 

"Don't let him sass you, mister," put in one of the urchins. "He didn't have no cause ter hit Katie." 

Ferris pounced upon the boy at once, and cuffed him right and left. In the midst of the castication, however, Hal caught the bully by the arm, and a second later Dick Ferris measured his length in the gutter.  1. Who was startled?
2. What name was he called?
3. Who said it?
4. Who was Ferris restraining?
5. Was she upset?
6. What names did she call Ferris?
7. Whose side did the crowd take?
8. Where did they suggest he should hit Ferris?
9. Did Ferris threaten them back?
10. What did he threaten?
11. What was he compared to?
12. Who did he attack?
13. Who came to the boy's rescue?
14. Where did he grab Ferris?
15. Where did he end up?
16. Had he hit the young girl?
17. Why was he angry with her?
18. Did Ferris think she did it intentionally?
19. Did the girl agree?
20. Where did they collide? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Dick Ferris
2. brute
3. Hal
4. a girl
5. yes
6. a mean, ugly thing
7. Hal
8. the eye
9. yes
10. hammering them to death
11. a savage animal
12. a boy
13. Hal
14. by the arm
15. in the gutter
16. yes
17. she ran into him
18. yes
19. no
20. in the alley