CHAPTER IV 

TARGET PRACTICE 

The two boys spent most of the following week rolling logs and they were busy among them one hot afternoon when Mr. Oliver walked out of the bush nearby. As they did not immediately see him, he stopped and stood watching them in the shadow for a few minutes. Frank was feeling more cheerful by this time, though his hands were still very sore and, as a good many of the logs were burned on the outside, he was more or less blackened all over. He was getting used to the work, and Jake, who had arrived with the sloop in the meanwhile, relieved him and his companion of the heaviest part of it. Turning around presently at a sound, Frank saw Mr. Oliver smiling at him. 

"If I were as grimy as you I think I'd go in for a swim," he said. "It's hot enough, and there's a nice beach not far away. I dare say Harry will go along with you while Jake and I put up these logs." 

Harry lost no time in throwing down his handspike, and they set out together down a narrow trail through the woods, which led them out by and by upon a head above the cove in which the sloop lay moored. Standing on the edge of the crag, Frank looked down upon the clear, green water which lapped smooth as oil upon a belt of milk-white shingle and broke into little wisps of foam beneath the gray rocks at the mouth of the cove. Beyond this the sea flashed silver in the sunlight like a great mirror, except where a faint, fitful breeze traced dark blue streaks across it. Dim smudges of islands and headlands broke the gleaming surface here and there, and high above it all was a cold white gleam of eternal snow.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What number of kids were moving logs?
2. The logs were being moved by how many kids?
3. 
Q2:
1. Who put on the floor his handspike?
2. Who dropped his handspike?
3. 
Q3:
1. What is the other boy’s name?
2. What is the other boy called?
3. 
Q4:
1. By what means did Jake arrive?
2. What transportation did Jake arrive in?
3. 
Q5:
1. Was the temperature low outside?
2. Was the weather cold outside?
3. 
Q6:
1. Did the beach have rocks?
2. Was the beach rocky?
3. 
Q7:
1. Was the water dark?
2. Was the water gloomy?
3. 
Q8:
1. What tint was the water?
2. What was the hue of the water like?
3. 
Q9:
1. Did Jake arrive during the day?
2. Did Jake arrive while it was still daytime?
3. 
Q10:
1. Which person was smiling?
2. Who wore a smile?
3. 
Q11:
1. Who worked the logs with Mr. Oliver?
2. Who helped Mr. Oliver with the logs?
3. 
Q12:
1. Is Jake interconnected with any of the characters?
2. Is Jake correlated with any of the characters?
3. 
Q13:
1. Are the people in the story close to the beach?
2. Is the beach nearby?
3. 
Q14:
1. What route did the characters take to get to the beach?
2. What trail was taken to get to the beach?
3. 
Q15:
1. Where did the trail lead?
2. What was at the end of the trail?
3. 
