Questions

Story: The hasty act.     By: Marc Brandel.

1.       Explanation:

In my draw I want to represent a scene that for me is the most important in the story.

This is when Charles meets Alice and Peter. In this scene Charles was lunch in a restaurant called Pierre’s because was raining so he can’t go to Chester’s as usual. When he finished lunch he saw Alice. She greeted him as if she knew him. Charles returned the greeting and he pushed a chair and she sat down. Then comes a man who came with Alice, he is called Peter. They was talk with Charles as if they knew him but really he didn’t know they. They believed charles's name was Jim. Charles didn't mind much because Alice was so beautiful and because he had drunk.

2.       Character: Alice

“She was the kind of girl who works for a very expensive fashion magazine, with a beautiful hat, and long white gloves. She was too nice-looking. Her hair was too golden, her face was too perfect, her clothes were too expensive”.

Place: In this story don't describe much some place, but I put something that I find.

“I ran across the street to Pierre’s instead. Pierre’s is expensive, a place where I can’t afford to have lunch very often”

Event:

“It wasn’t until I was leaving at six that I put it on again. I was half way down the stairs before I noticed that there was a bundle in the pocket. It was a long *envelope. It felt as though it were filled with papers. I took it out and looked at it, wondering where it had come from. There was no name on it. Then i saw that it wasn’t fastened shut. I opened it and looked inside. I almost fainted, right here. It wasn’t papers – it was money! I went back up to my office. I locked the door, and then took out the money and counted it. I counted it twice. Two thousand, three hundred and sisty-five dollars!.”



Questions:

THE HASTY ACT

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

1. Is the man who tells this story a brave man? 

R/= Yes

2. Does he usually lunch in expensive restaurants? 

R/= No

3. Why did he go to lunch at Pierre's? 

R/= Because was raining

4. How did he feel after he had two drinks? 

R/= Freer and braver

5. Why did he feel uncomfortable with the couple who seemed so friendly at lunch? 

R/= Because he didn’t know they

6. Why do you think the couple spoke to him? 

R/= To involve him

7. What sort of people were they? 

R/= They seemed like good people but they weren’t

8. What happened when the storyteller wanted to get his coat from thc coatroom? 

R/= Peter took the ticket out of him hand before he could stop him 

9. What did he find in his coat pocket later that afternoon?

R/= Money 

10. Why did he take the envelope to the couple he met at lunch? 

R/= To deliver the money

11. Whose money was it? 

R/= owner of the coat

12. Why was he frightened? 

R/= because he found the money 

13. Why would the real owner of the raincoat be able to find him? 

R/= Because he had the money

14. What would you have done, in this situation? 

R/= I would go back to the restaurant to ask about my coat

EXERCISES 

A. Insert an appropriate word from the list below in each of the following blanks.

Glove, envelope, get out of, hasty, influence, pretend, coward, cigarette, effect, expensive

1. He was in a great hurry. As a result he made a HASTY decision. 

 2. "Would you like to smoke?" he asked, offering her a box of CIGARETTES  

3. He folded the letter and put it back in the ENVELOPE 

4. Little boys like to PRETEND to be cowboy and indiana. 

5. In the winter, it is wise to wear a hat on one's head, and GLOVES on one's hands.  

6. It was a very good lunch, but it was EXPENSIVE I cannot. 

7. My uncle gave me very good advice. He INFLUENCED my decision to become a doctor.  

8. The EFFECT of the drinks was to make him braver than usual, for a little while. 

9. Usually he was not a brave man; he might even be called a COWARD 

10. Some boys try very hard to GET OUT OF doing their homework. They prefer playing baseball. 

B. Match the expression in the left-hand column with the italicized expression that means approximately the same thing in the sentence on the right. 

1. took out (f)

2. felt good (e)

3. get away (a)

4. get back (c)

5. get into (d)

6. have got to (b)

(a) I was trying to escape. 

(b) We must get back. 

(c) When will he return to the hotel? 

(d) He didn't become involved in this on purpose. 

(e) I was quite happy all evening. 

(f) He removed the money.

THE MAN WHO HATED TIME 

EXERCISES

A. Complete the sentences below by using one of the choices given. 

1. The author is sorry for the older man because he …

1. old
2. New
3. Full
4. Empty
5. Rich
6. Poor

2. The author think that some day he himself may need…

1. A watch
2. Money 
3. Someone to talk to

3. The author listens to the older man's story be- cause ... 

1. he is sorry for him. b.
2. he has half an hour with nothing to do. 
3. he is interested in watches. 

4. Chris Selby was a man who... 

1. was always charming and full of smiles. 
2. was very unpleasant when things didn't go right for him. 

5. In his profession as an actor's agent, Chris Selby earned... 

1. very little money. 
2. enough money to live well. 

6. Chris Selby smuggled watches because he liked... 

1. watches, 
2. money. 
3. adventure. 

7. Carrying things secretly across a border is... 

1. a clever game. 
2. a crime. 

8. Monsicur Audiat's brothers were earnest and... 

1. intelligent. 
2. not very clever. 

9. They wound up all the watches in order to... 

1. test them. 
2. get Chris Selby into trouble. 

10. The customs officer who caught Chris Selby... 

1. punished him. 
2. joined in his smuggling.

B. Insert an appropriate word from the list below in each of the following blanks.

Armistice day, Temptation, Duty, Dock, Tick, smuggle, Customs, nervous, Bag, Musical, Ignore

1. It is hard to resist the TEMPTATION to smuggle when it will bring a lot of money without much work. 

2. The watches were brought in illegally. Selby SMUGGLE them into England. 

3. To go aboard a railroad train, you go to the station; to go aboard a ship, you go to the DOCK. 

4. I asked the stranger a question, but he did not pay any attention to me. He IGNORE me completely. 

5. Actors are often afraid they will forget their lines. This makes them very NERVOUS before they go on the stage.  

6. The watches had all been wound up, and so you could hear them TICK when everything Else was quiet. 

7. Customs DUTIES are collected when you cross the border. The CUSTOMS officer
generally examines luggage right on the dock. 

8. Did the customs man go through his luggage? Yes, he opened all of his BAG. 

9. In the years following the First World War, November 11th was known as ARMISTICE DAY. 

10. Chris Selby hoped to get the dancer a job in London in a MUSICAL show.

C. This story employs 'customs' and 'duties' in a special sense. To be sure you know the difference
between this and the more usual sense, read the following definitions, and then decide
which of them applies in each of the sentences below. 

Questions and exercises

Duty (1)    what one is morally obliged to do

Duty (2)    the money paid to the government when goods are taken across the border (also called
customs duty) 

Customs (1)   habit, way of doing things

Customs (2)   import duties to be paid on certain things when they are brought into a country; also,
The government department which collects  these duties, and examines incoming baggage for
smuggled things

1. It is the custom in that country to marry very young. (1)

2. They have some very unusual customs in that country. (1)

3. Did they get through customs all right? (2)

4. Don't forget to fill out your customs declaration. (2)

5. Customs duties are applied to many things when you take them into that country. (2)

6. Did he do his duty? (1)

7. Did he pay the duty? (2)

8. The customs officer did his duty. (2) (1)

9. He told us that the custom was to pay duty on all watches brought into England. (1) (2)

10. It is the duty of a good citizen to pay duty to customs. (1) (2) (2)

THE VENTURES

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. Describe John Reginald Forster. 

R/= He was a venturer by nature. He had gone to many places and known many things but
none of his wanderings had done any good. Everything seems boring to him in New York.

2. Why was Forster bored? 

R/= Because in New York everything was the same and because none of his wanderings had
done any good.

3. Contrast Forster's credit standing with the cash he had in his pocket.

R/= Forster actually had a lot of money but he only paid with checks, and in his pockets he carried
nothing, not a penny.

4. Why was the man standing nearby so amused and interested by Forster's situation? 

R/= I think he was amused by the situation to see what Forster was doing regarding his proposal.

5. Why was it going to be an adventure to eat dinner in the expensive hotel? 

R/= Because since they had no money neither of them were going to risk what happened.

6. What was so nice about the hotel? 

R/= Because the food was delightful and the waiters was quick and skillful.

7. Why was the meeting with the veiled lady in Constantinople a disappointment? 

R/= Because she just wanted her stories to get to the New York newspapers.

8. What did each man think would happen to the other, if the other got the bill? 

R/= Forster thought that Ives could not pay since he had no money and that he could be arrested.
And Ives knew that Forster paid monthly at the hotel since he was the owner.

9. What did each of them know would happen to himself, if he got the bill? 

R/= Forster knew he was going to pay. And Ives knew that Forster would pay.

10. Under these circumstances, was the dinner really a gamble?

R/= No, because they both knew that they could pay.

EXERCISES

1. Fill the blanks with appropriate words from the list below

Cash, Venturer, Heads or tails, Bazaar, Canoe, Toss a coin, Fountain, Nightingale, Gambler, Veil

1. Forster and his friend were always seeking adventure. They were VENTURES. 

2. The Indians build very light boats for traveling on the lakes and rivers. Ives had made a
trip in one of these CANOES. 

3. One kind of bird that sings sweetly at night is called the NIGHTINGALE. 

4. While in Singapore, we wanted to buy some silk and brass, so we went to the BAZAAR. 

5. In Constantinople it is hard to tell what the ladies look like, as many of them are VEILED. 

6. In hot dry countries, people enjoy the sound of running water, and so they have FOUNTAINS
in their gardens. 

7. When one man tosses a coin, the other man calls out HEADS OR TAILS.

8. Forster and Ives decided who was to order dinner by TOSS A COIN. 

9. Neither of them had any CASH with him that evening. 

10. Men who take chances on losing a lot of money at card games are called GAMBLERS.

B. Choose the right word for each blank from the two at the end of each sentence. 

1. John Reginald Forster found life BORING (bored, boring). 

2. Billinger told dull stories, and was very BORING (bored, boring) 

3. Charles had no interest in the conversation. He was not INTERESTED in it. (interested, interesting). 

4. The conversation was dull. It was not INTERESTING (interested, interesting). 

5. While EATING dinner, Ives said: "I want an aventure" (eating, eaten). 

6. When the dinner was EATEN, they asked for the bill (eating, eaten). 

7. "There is almost nothing you can begin without KNOWING what the end will be." (knowing, known). 

8. That particular person was not KNOW to him (knowing, known). 

9. There are no thrills any more. Shooting dangerous animals is no more EXCITING that staying
after school (exciting, excited). 

10. The children were EXCITED about visiting the ship and the docks. (excited, exciting)

NEVER TRUST A LADY

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

1. What sort of person was Horace Denby? 

R/= He was good and respectable but not completely honest.

2. Why did Horace Denby steal? 

R/= Because he loved rare, expensive books.

3. What was Horace Denby's business? 

R/= His business was make locks.

4. How did he spend his holiday each year?

R/= planned carefully just what he would do. stole enough to last for twelve months and secretly
bought the books he loved through an agent.

5. Did Denby's neighbors know about this part of his life? 

R/= Denby’s neighbors didn’t know about this part of the Denby’s life.

6. What was it that made Horace sneeze so much? 

R/= The flowers

7. Why did he open the safe for the young lady? 

R/= Because before going to London she promised her husband that she would take the
jewelry to the bank, but she left them in the safe and forgot the numbers to open it.

8. Who was the young lady? 

R/= She was a thief too

9. What happened to Horace in the end? 

R/= Was arrested and was the assistant librarian at the prison

10. What did the court think of his explanation about why he opened the safe?

R/= That was a nonsense and nobody believed him.

EXERCISES

1. Fill the blanks with appropriate words from the list 

Burglar,Cigarette, Desperate,Dishonesty, Drawing room, Fingerprint, Hay fever, Nonsense, Safe (n.), Sneeze (n. and v.), Thief, thieves, Tickle, Ugly, Worn-out.

1. Horace Denby suffered from hay fever. This caused him to SNEEZE violently and often. 

2. When people own valuable things, they try to keep them safe by putting them in a SAFE. 

3. When Horace left off his gloves, he left FINGERPRINTS on everything he touched. 

4. Families generally eat meals in the dining room, and receive visitors in the DRAWING ROOM. 

5. People generally sneeze when their noses and throats begin to TICKLE. 

6. Though Horace Denby appeared to be very respectable, he was really a BURGLAR. 

7. You might also call him and the clever young lady who tricked him THIEVES. 

8. When things are very difficult, and there is no hope left, a man become DESPERATE. 

9. The young lady decided to smoke a CIGARETTE, and Horace politely offered to light it. 

10. The young lady was pretty, but many women are not so fortunate. They are UGLY. 

11. Horace disliked books that were old, ugly, and WORN-OUT. 

12. Horace did not want to be honest. He just wanted not to get caught when he was dishonest.
But in the end his DISHONESTY got him into trouble. 

13. Some people sneeze because they have colds in their heads, but Denby sneezed because he
suffered from HAY FEVER. 

14. When stories don't seem to be very sensible or true, we sometimes say they are NONSENSE. 

15. When people are poor, they wear old, WORN-OUT clothes, because they can't afford new ones. 

THE NECKLACE 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. Was Madame Loisel a happy woman? Why? 

R/= she was not happy because she had always been poor and always thought only of luxuries,
things that could not be given.

2. Why did Madame Loisel cry after her visits to Madame Forestier? 

R/= She was crying because her friend Madame Forestier was rich and had everything she wanted.

3. Was Madame Loisel happy when her husband received the grand invitation? 

R/= No, she was very angry because she didn't have a dress to wear.

4. What did her husband do to make it possible for her to go to the party? 

R/= He gave her four hundred francs to buy a dress.

5. When she had a dress, what more did she need in order to feel that she looked right for the grand
occasion? 

R/= She needed jewels.

6. Did she enjoy the party? Why?

R/= She liked the party because it was the most beautiful and all the men admired her.

7. What happened when the Loisels got home? 

R/= Mathilde saw that she had lost the necklace.

8. What did the Loisels decide to do about the necklace? 

R/= When they did not find the necklace they decided to buy another similar one.

9. What was their life like for the next ten years? 

R/= Her life became paying debts, living in an ugly house, washing herself, among other things.

10. What did Madame Loisel learn, after paying so much for the necklace? 

R/= She learned that such minimal things can make your life very happy or very miserable.

11. What do you think of Madame Loisel's character? 

R/= I think she was very ambitious and should have settled for what she had, because at least
she lived well, she only wanted luxuries and expensive things, and she should have been happy
with what she had. And for this ambition he paid a dear price.

12. Do you think she deserved such a cruel punishment?

R/= I think that nobody deserves a punishment like that. Only she should have thought a little more
about things and settled for what she had.

EXERCISES

1. Insert the appropriate word from the list below. 

Bracelet , Cab, Employee, Franc, Graceful, Invitation, Luxury, Necklace, Pearl, Uniform

1. Madame Loisel was invited to the party. Did Madame Forestier receive an INVITATION, too?. 

2. Madame Loisel likes pretty dresses, elegant houses, and fine wines. She feels she is made for a
life of LUXURY. 

3. Mr. Johnson has worked for this firm for several years. He is a very loyal and trusted EMPLOYEE. 

4. The men of the Palace Guard look very handsome in their new red and black UNIFORMS. 

5. Monsieur and Madame Forestier dance very well together. They are exceptionally GRACEFUL. 

6. Did you come on the bus, or walk, or take a CAB?. 

7. Madame Loisel preferred a diamond necklace to one made of PEARLS. 

8. How many FRANC did you pay for the cab?. 

9. Madame Loisel had a long and graceful neck, and the NECKLACE looked very well on it. 

10. The secretary wears too many BRACELETS on her wrists. They make a great deal of noise
when she is writing.

B. Insert in the blank an adjective or noun which is related to the word in italics. Example: She
would have liked to be rich. She felt she was made for riches. 

1. They were invited to a party by the minister. Her husband received an INVITATION. 

2. A man who makes or sells jewels is a JEWELER. 

3. A NECKLACE is a jeweled ornament worn around the neck. 

4. They admired her, and she enjoyed their ADMIRATION very much. 

5. What is its worth? It is WORTH 500 francs. 

6. She was happy at the party, but when she had to put on lier worn-out old coat and go home
she became UNHAPPY. 

7. She was the most popular woman at the dance. She thought of nothing but her beauty, her
POPULARITY, and the admiration of everyone. 

8. She would have liked to marry a man of IMPORTANCE. Instead she married an unimportant
little government clerk. 

9. The party delighted her. She had a DELIGHTFUL time. 

10. Some of the other women had beauty, but Madame Loisel was the most BEAUTIFUL of all.

THE PURLOINED LETTER 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

1. Who stole the letter? 

R/= The Minister

2. Whom did he steal it from?

R/= From the lady. 

3. Why was the letter so important? 

R/= Because the letter had a message that only the lady could see.

4. What had the head of the police done to try to get the letter back? 

R/= He entered the Minister's house every night for three months for search the letter.

5. What kind of a man was D-?

R/= Is cruel and unprincipled.

6. How did knowledge of D-'s character help Monsieur Dupin find the letter? 

R/= Because not all people think the same way. because the Minister knew that the police would
search in those places so he was more strategic and Dupin what he did was think as D would have
thought.

7. How was the letter hidden? 

R/= The Minister crumpled the letter and folded it until it looked old and worn and then turned it
inside out to hide its contents.

8. How did Monsieur Dupin get the letter? 

R/=Dupin went to visit the Minister, saw this worn letter and believed that was how he hid it. he
returned the next day and had arranged for a man to shoot to cause a riot, at which point he
changed the letter the Minister had with one made by him.

EXERCISES

A. Choose the ending for each sentence which best explains the italicized word. 

1. When something is purloined it is... 

a). hidden.  

b) stolen. 

2. A scandal is... 

a) a pleasant way to light a dining table. 

b) a shameful story which is discussed by everyone and gets the person concerned into trouble.

3. A man who dares to do something dangerous is... 

a) very brave. 

b) a coward. 

4. We use the microscope to see things that are... 

a) very far away. 

b) very small. 

5. A saw is used to... 

a) cut wood. 

b) sew a dress. 

6. A rung is... 

a) a cross-piece of a ladder or chair-back. 

b) the sound of a bell ringing. 

7. Glue is... 

a) the light given off by a lamp. 

b) the stuff we use to stick things together. 

8. Mirrors are... 

a) glasses in which we can see ourselves. 

b) expressions of admiration. 

9. A binder... 

a) sews books into their covers. 

b) keeps the sun out of your eyes. 

10. A card-rack is... 

a) an instrument for making prisoners confess. 

b) something to put invitations and calling-cards in.

11. A mantelpiece is... 

a) a shelf attached to the chimney over the fireplace. 

b) the place to build a fire in the drawing room. 

12. A genius is... 

a) a brilliant and gifted person. 

b) a family or kind of animals or planta. 

13. When someone pretends, he…

a) acts as though something which he knows is false were true. 

b) argues loudly about something. 

14. Even-odd is... 

a) a children's guessing game. 

b) an adjective meaning "very strange".

B. Put in the blank space the correct form of the verb at the end of the sentence. 

1. We were smoking and THINKING about the adventures we had had. (think). 

2. We were glad to see him, and Dupin ROSE to light the lamp. (rise). 

3. I thought he would LIKE to hear about it. (like). 

4. If it were known that I had told anyone, I would LOSE my job. (lose) 

5. If he had DONE that, we would know at once. (do) 

6. The robber could have this power if he KNEW that she knew. (know) 

7. If he were to show it to her husband it would RUIN her honor. (ruin) 

8. I THOUGHT that I had time. (think) 

9. If there had BEEN any disturbance, we would have known. (be) 

10. When you have signed the check, I will GIVE you the letter. (give) 

11. One boy guesses whether the other is HOLDING an even number of stones. (hold)

12. If he changes his number, it will BE too simple. (be) 

13. He used to TRY to think as the other boy would have thought. (try) 

14. He would be sure to AVOID the places where they would look. (avoid) 

15. If I had DONE that, I might not have left the room alive. (do) 

16. He will continue to act as though the letter WERE still there. (be)

LARCENY AND OLD LACE 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

 1. Why had the Usher sisters decided to come to live in Milwaukee? 

R/= Because they received a letter saying that their nephew Walter had left them his home and
furniture.

2. Why was Mr. Bingham unhappy about the Usher sisters' decision? 

R/= Because he didn't want the house to become in a house for writers and artists, he wanted
them to sell the house.

3. Do these retired school teachers speak as you would expect two nice old ladies to do? Find
some examples of rather unusual language that they use. 

R/= I would believe that teachers of this age would use more formal language and their age.
but instead they used expressions like "nonsense" or "we burned our bridges behind us".

4. What did Mr. Bingham do to try to discourage the ladies from staying in their nephew's house? 

R/= He told they that the house was in a bad neighborhood, that a murder had occurred there,
and that walter was a mysterious man.

5. When the ladies arrived at the house, whom did they find there, and what was he up to?

 R/= They found Tiny Tinker, a heavy man with a broken face was knocking on the walls with
his hands. 

6. What did they do with him? 

R/= They hit Tiny with their shoes on the head and knocked him out and took neckties from the
bedroom and tied his legs to the sofa and his hands, up over his head, to a desk.

7. What had Walter been doing with the papers that Tiny was trying to find? 

R/= Walter was blackmailing Gordon with money not to turn over his criminal record to the police.

8. What sort of man was Harry Gordon? 

R/= He was a criminal man.

9. What did Harry Gordon want to do with the Usher sisters, to get them out of the way? 

R/= He wanted to kill them.

10. What did Mr. Bingham think of that idea? 

R/= He told Harry not to do that because that could be used against him.

11. What arrangement was finally made? 

R/= They would sell the house to Harry and with that money they would leave the city and take a
trip around the world.

12. Was Grace happy about this, at first? 

R/= No

13. How had Walter hidden the papers? 

R/= Walter had hidden the papers in the photo he had with his aunts from when he was young.

14. Do you think Florence was a good detective?

R/= At first I thought not. But after the story has passed and it is she who finds the papers and
makes the deal with Harry, I found her to be an excellent detective and very strategic. 

EXERCISES

1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the list below. 

Bookkeeper, Gangster, Nephew, Will, Bullet, Witch, Liquor, Bodyguard, Knock out, Cigar, Microfilm, Burn one's bridges behind one, Inheritance, Creative, Detective, Stick to, Blackmail, Mystery, City prosecutor, Solve, Lawyer.

1. The Usher sisters had come to Milwaukee to get the house their NEPHEW, Walter had left them
in his WILL.

2. They had left home forever, and, by selling their home, they had BURNED THEIR BRIDGES BEHIND THEM. T
hey looked forward to having CREATIVE artists live in their lodging house.

3. Mr. Bingham was the LAWYER who told them about their INHERITANCE. He was a coward
who drank a great deal of LIQUOR to give himself courage. 

4. He tried to discourage the old ladies, buy they had WILLS of steel. Having made a decisión,
they were determined to STICK TO it. 

5. Harry Gordon was a GANGSTER, who liked to smoke expensive CIGARS. 

6. Walter had been Harry Gordon's BOOKKEEPER, and knew that Gordon was dishonest.
He BLACKMAILED Gordon by threatening to tell the police. Walter died of a BULLET in the heart. 

7. Tiny, Gordon's BODYGUARD, was looking for the pages in Walter's house. 

8. The old ladies KNOCKED Tiny OUT with their shoes. Then they asked him many questions
and accused him of joining a criminal CONSPIRACY. Tiny thought they were WITCHES. 

9. Florence agreed to sell the house, but she was a good DETECTIVE and had already
SOLVED the mystery. 

10. She knew that Walter had hidden the MICROFILMS of the ledger pages behind her
photograph, and she planned to send them to the police. The CITY PROSECUTOR would bring
Harry Gordon to court, and see that he was punished. 

B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the list below.

Conspiracy, Knock out, Solve, Liquor, Bodyguard, Detective, Larceny, Sofa, Will, Stubborn,
Cigar, Ledger, Microfilm,Bookkeeper, Inheritance, Blackmailer, Squeak.

1.The Minister D- in "the purloined letter" was a BLACKMAILER, like Walter in "larceny and old lace" 

2. Kings and Presidents have to be protected, and so, like Harry Gordon, they have BODYGUARDS. 

3. The young man in "The Hasty Act" and Mr. Bing- ham in "Larceny and Old Lace" are both cowards
who gain courage from a drink of strong LIQUOR.

4. Monsieur Dupin in "The purloined letter" might be called a DETECTIVE, because he was clever
at solving mysteries, like Florence in "Larceny and Old Lace". 

5. Burglars and thieves are said to commit LARCENY when they break open safes and steal
people's jewelry. 

6. Many people smoke cigarettes, but some men prefer the luxury of a good CIGAR. 

7. Most businesses keep records in LEDGERS. Every week the BOOKKEEPER writes in them the income and expenses of the company. 

8. If the business has many ledgers and files of letters, it may save space by making MICROFILMS of them. 

9. Most families have chairs, tables, lamps, and a SOFA in the drawing room, with pretty curtains and soft rugs. 

10. Sometimes an unpopular ruler will be attacked and removed by a CONSPIRACY among the people who oppose him. 

11. In boxing, the man who KNOCKS OUT the other man generally wins the match. 

12. The door was making a noise which bothered me. I used some oil to stop it from SQUEAKING. 

13. Some children enjoy doing arithmetic, others can't SOLVE the problems easily

14. When the man was growing old, he called in his lawyer and wrote a WILL, so that each of his children would have a fair INHERITANCE. 

15. The mother had trouble training her little boy. He was very STUBBORN, and wouldn't do what he was told.