Chapter II 

Harry Clavering Chooses His Profession 



Harry Clavering might not be an usher, but, nevertheless, he was home for the holidays. And who can say where the usher ends and the school-master begins? He, perhaps, may properly be called an usher, who is hired by a private schoolmaster to assist himself in his private occupation, whereas Harry Clavering had been selected by a public body out of a hundred candidates, with much real or pretended reference to certificates of qualification. He was certainly not an usher, as he was paid three hundred a year for his work--which is quite beyond the mark of ushers. So much was certain; but yet the word stuck in his throat and made him uncomfortable. He did not like to reflect that he was home for the holidays. 

But he had determined that he would never come home for the holidays again. At Christmas he would leave the school at which he had won his appointment with so much trouble, and go into an open profession. Indeed he had chosen his profession, and his mode of entering it. He would become a civil engineer, and perhaps a land surveyor, and with this view he would enter himself as a pupil in the great house of Beilby & Burton. The terms even had been settled. He was to pay a premium of five hundred pounds and join Mr. Burton, who was settled in the town of Stratton, for twelve months before he placed himself in Mr. Beilby's office in London. Stratton was less than twenty miles from Clavering. It was a comfort to him to think that he could pay this five hundred pounds out of his own earnings, without troubling his father. It was a comfort, even though he had earned that money by "ushering" for the last two years.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Harry Clavering had been selected from a pool of how many?
2. How many candidates was Harry Clavering chosen from?
3. What was the number of total candidates from which Harry Clavering was picked?
Q2:
1. How was Harry Clavering employed?
2. What was Harry Clavering's profession?
3. What did Harry Clavering do for a living?
Q3:
1. Was it a public school that hired Harry Clavering?
2. Did Harry Clavering work for a public school?
3. Did Harry Clavering find work at a public school?
Q4:
1. Did Harry Clavering want to go home for the holidays?
2. Was it Harry Clavering's wish to return home for the holidays?
3. Did Harry Clavering hope to spend the holidays at home?
Q5:
1. What did Harry Clavering want to become?
2. What did Harry Clavering desire to do in life?
3. What profession did Harry Clavering want to have?
Q6:
1. What was Harry Clavering home for?
2. Why had Harry Clavering returned home?
3. What made Harry Clavering go back home?
Q7:
1. How far away from Stratton was Harry Clavering?
2. What was Harry Clavering's distance from Stratton?
3. What distance separated Harry Clavering from Stratton?
Q8:
1. Who was Harry Clavering meeting at Stratton?
2. Who did Harry Clavering have a meeting with at Stratton?
3. Who was Harry Clavering going to Stratton to see?
Q9:
1. How long was Mr. Burton at Stratton?
2. What was the length of Mr. Burton's stay at Stratton?
3. How much time had Mr. Burton spent at Stratton?
Q10:
1. When was Harry Clavering going to leave school?
2. When would Harry Clavering go away from school?
3. At what point was Harry Clavering to depart from school?
Q11:
1. What was Harry Clavering going to do?
2. What did Harry Clavering plan on dong?
3. What was Harry Clavering's plan?
Q12:
1. Where did Harry Clavering want to become a student?
2. Where did Harry Clavering desire to become a pupil?
3. In what location did Harry Clavering want to study?
Q13:
1. Who hired Harry Clavering?
2. Who gave Harry Clavering his job?
3. From whom had Harry Clavering gotten his job?
Q14:
1. How much would Harry Clavering be paid?
2. What was to be Harry Clavering's salary?
3. What amount would Harry Clavering make?
Q15:
1. Was Harry Clavering's salary more than a regular usher?
2. Did Harry Clavering make more money than the average usher?
3. Was Harry Clavering paid a higher sum than the average usher?
