CHAPTER THIRTEEN. 

TYRANTS AND PLOTTERS. 

Leaving Christian and Adams to carry out their philanthropic intentions, we return to Matthew Quintal, whom we left sprawling on the ground in his garden. 

This garden was situated in one of the little valleys not far from Bounty Bay. Higher up in the same valley stood the hut of McCoy. Towards this hut Quintal, after gathering himself up, wended his way in a state of unenviable sulkiness. 

His friend McCoy was engaged at the time in smoking his evening pipe, but that pipe did not now seem to render him much comfort, for he growled and puffed in a way that showed he was not soothed by it, the reason being that there was no tobacco in the pipe. That weed,--which many people deem so needful and so precious that one sometimes wonders how the world managed to exist before Sir Walter Raleigh put it to its unnatural use--had at last been exhausted on Pitcairn Island, and the mutineers had to learn to do without it. Some of them said they didn't care, and submitted with a good grace to the inevitable. Others growled and swore and fretted, saying that they knew they couldn't live without it. To their astonishment, and no doubt to their disgust, they did manage to live quite as healthily as before, and with obvious advantage to health and teeth. Two there were, however, namely, Quintal and McCoy, who would not give in, but vowed with their usual violence of language that they would smoke seaweed rather than want their pipes. Like most men of powerful tongue and weak will, they did not fulfil their vows. Seaweed was left to the gulls, but they tried almost every leaf and flower on the island without success. Then they scraped and dried various kinds of bark, and smoked that. Then they tried the fibrous husk of the cocoa-nut, and then the dried and pounded kernel, but all in vain. Smoke, indeed, they produced in huge volumes, but of satisfaction they had none. It was a sad case.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was sprawled out on the ground?
2. Who was laying on the ground?
3. Who was on the ground?
Q2:
1. Where was Matthew Quintal laying?
2. Where was Matthew Quintal sprawled?
3. On what ground was Matthew Quintal laying?
Q3:
1. Who was carrying out philanthropic acts?
2. Who was left to carry out their philanthropic intentions?
3. 
Q4:
1. Who else was carrying out philanthropic intentions?
2. Who along with Christian was performing philanthropic actions?
3. 
Q5:
1. Where was Matthew Quintal's garden?
2. Where was Matthew Quintal's garden located?
3. What was Matthew Quintal's garden's location?
Q6:
1. What else was in the valley besides Matthew Quintal's garden?
2. What else stood in the valley other than the garden?
3. What structure was in the valley?
Q7:
1. Why was McCoy not relaxed by his pipe?
2. Why was smoking the pipe not helping McCoy?
3. Why was McCoy not feeling relaxed after having smoked the pipe?
Q8:
1. Did Matthew Quintal and McCoy smoke bark?
2. Were Matthew Quintal and McCoy smoking bark?
3. Did Matthew Quintal and McCoy try and smoke some kind of bark?
Q9:
1. Was Matthew Quintal and McCoy smoking bark sad?
2. Was Matthew Quintal and McCoy trying to find things to smoke sad?
3. Was it sad to see Matthew Quintal and McCoy smoking different items?
Q10:
1. What was left to the seagulls?
2. What did Matthew Quintal and McCoy leave to the seagulls?
3. What was consumed by the seagulls?
