Problem: CHAPTER XXV. 



Oh, no, we never mention her, We never breathe her name.--SONG. 

A great deal of merriment had come home with Harry, who never was grave for ten minutes without a strong reaction, and distracted the house with his noise and his antics, in proportion, as it sometimes seemed, to the spaces of serious thought and reading spent in the study, where Dr. May did his best to supply Mr. Ramsden's insufficient attention to his Confirmation candidates, by giving an hour every day to Norman, Ethel, and Harry. He could not lecture, but he read with them, and his own earnestness was very impressive. 

The two eldest felt deeply, but Harry often kept it in doubt, whether he were not as yet too young and wild for permanent impressions, so rapid were his transitions, and so overpowering his high spirits. Not that these were objected to; but there was a feeling that there might as well be moderation in all things, and that it would have been satisfactory if, under present circumstances, he had been somewhat more subdued and diligent. 

"There are your decimals not done yet, Harry." 

For Harry, being somewhat deficient in arithmetic, had been recommended to work in that line during his visit at home--an operation usually deferred, as at present, to the evening. 

"I am going to do my sums now, Flora," said Harry, somewhat annoyed. 

He really fetched his arithmetic, and his voice was soon heard asking how he was ever to put an end to a sum that would turn to nothing but everlasting threes. 
1. Who didn't feel as deep as the others?
2. What arrived along with him?
3. How did he cause distractions?
4. What task had he not completed?
5. When did he usually put them off until?
6. How many were up for confirmation?
7. Where there any females?
8. What was her name?
9. What about the other two?
10. Who asked the boy about his math assignment?
11. And who would read to them?
Answer: 1. Harry
2. merriment
3. with his noise and his antics
4. his decimals
5. to the evening
6. Three
7. yes
8. Ethel
9. Norman and Harry
10. Flora
11. Dr. May

Problem: Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Ireland's top Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Sean Brady, was under mounting pressure to resign Friday amid renewed allegations about his role in dealing with the sexual abuse of children by priests. 

A British television documentary repeated claims made in 2010 that Brady was told of attacks by pedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth in 1975 but did not inform police or the parents of the victims. 

The documentary also claimed that Brady, then a priest, had a greater role in the church investigation of the Smyth allegations than he has admitted. New details and documents also were produced. 

Responding to the BBC program, Brady repeated his defense that he had done his job by passing details of all allegations to his superiors. 

He told CNN that he felt "betrayed" when he discovered that church officials had taken no action against Smyth, who continued to abuse children for years throughout Ireland and in the United States. 

Smyth was eventually imprisoned and has since died. 

Brady has accepted that during the 1970s, he was "part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the church," but he has insisted he does not intend to resign. 

The Catholic Church in Ireland said Friday that a previous request from Brady for Pope Benedict XVI to send a bishop to help him with his work would be "reactivated." 

Calls continued from abuse victims and lawmakers in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for Brady to step down. 

Abuse survivor Jon McCourt told CNN that further inquiries should be made into Brady's role. 
1. Who was being pressured to resign?
2. What was his name?
3. Why?
4. Was he complicit in child abuse claims?
5. How long did he know?
6. Did he tell anybody?
Answer: 1. Ireland's top Roman Catholic cleric
2. Sean Brady
3. allegations about his role in dealing with the sexual abuse
4. yes
5. since 1975
6. did not inform police or the parents of the victims.

Problem: Chapter IX. 

Joe went to bed that night with a promise to himself to rise early next morning, for he had been invited to take part in a "raising," which term meant that a new cabin was to be erected, and such task was ever an event in the lives of the settlers. 

The following morning Joe rose early, dressing himself in a complete buckskin suit, for which he had exchanged his good garments of cloth. Never before had he felt so comfortable. He wanted to hop, skip and jump. The soft, undressed buckskin was as warm and smooth as silk-plush; the weight so light, the moccasins so well-fitting and springy, that he had to put himself under considerable restraint to keep from capering about like a frolicsome colt. 

The possession of this buckskin outfit, and the rifle and accouterments which went with the bargain, marked the last stage in Joe's surrender to the border fever. The silent, shaded glens, the mystery of the woods, the breath of this wild, free life claimed him from this moment entirely and forever. 

He met the others, however, with a serene face, showing no trace of the emotion which welled up strongly from his heart. Nell glanced shyly at him; Kate playfully voiced her admiration; Jim met him with a brotherly ridicule which bespoke his affection as well as his amusement; but Colonel Zane, having once yielded to the same burning, riotous craving for freedom which now stirred in the boy's heart, understood, and felt warmly drawn toward the lad. He said nothing, though as he watched Joe his eyes were grave and kind. In his long frontier life, where many a day measured the life and fire of ordinary years, he had seen lad after lad go down before this forest fever. It was well, he thought, because the freedom of the soil depended on these wild, light-footed boys; yet it always made him sad. How many youths, his brother among them, lay under the fragrant pine-needle carpet of the forest, in their last earthly sleep! 
1. What was the event?
2. What does that mean?
3. Where does this story take place?
4. Who awoke?
5. What did he wear?
6. How did he get it?
7. Was the suit comfortable?
8. How many girls are in this story?
9. What was her name?
10. Were they on the prairie?
11. What was the terrain like?
12. who took an earthly slumber?
Answer:
1. a "raising,"
2. a new cabin was to be erected
3. near the border
4. Joe
5. complete buckskin suit
6. unknown
7. yes
8. One
9. Kate
10. No
11. shaded glens, the mystery of the woods
12. Colonel Zane