CHAPTER XXV 

THE TRAIL OF THE TOURING CAR 

All started in astonishment at the footprints before them. What Tom had said was true--the prints were altogether too large to have been made by their own feet in walking through the woods. 

"How could I have made such a mistake!" murmured Dick. 

"I wonder where you got mixed up?" said Sam. "I looked at the prints down by the swamp. They seemed to be O. K. there." 

"Then that is where I must have gotten mixed up--maybe after we pulled Tom from the mud." 

"We'll have to go back," came from Tom. "Too bad! But it can't be helped. I don't blame you, Dick," he added, hastily. 

"Neither do I," put in Sam. "Anybody might make such a mistake, with nothing but that smoky lantern to guide him." 

They turned back, and after a while reached the edge of the swamp. Here, after a long search, they found their own footprints. 

"Now we are all right!" cried Sam. "Come on!" 

"Yes, and let us be careful that we don't make another mistake," added Tom. 

"I don't know about this," said Dick, hesitatingly. "Somehow, it doesn't look altogether right to me." 

"Why not?" queried his two brothers. 

"It doesn't seem to be the right direction. But they are our footprints, so we may as well follow them." 

They went on and proceeded for several hundred feet in silence. Then Tom uttered a cry of dismay. 

"Well, this beats the Dutch!" he gasped. 

"What's wrong now?" asked Dick.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was Tom's remark?
2. What was Tom's utterance?
3. What did Tom tell the others?
Q2:
1. Were the footprints too large?
2. Were the prints in the ground too big?
3. Did the group find too large of footprints?
Q3:
1. Was Tom's statement true?
2. Did Tom make a true statement?
3. Was what Tom said correct?
Q4:
1. Was Dick mistaken?
2. Did Dick do something incorrectly?
3. Did Dave mess up?
Q5:
1. What did Sam gaze upon?
2. What did Sam turn his eyes towards?
3. What was Sam's gaze fixed upon?
Q6:
1. Where were the prints that Sam was looking at?
2. Where did Sam see prints?
3. Where were the footprints that Sam had spotted?
Q7:
1. Was Dick mixed up?
2. Had Dick been mistaken?
3. Did Dick make a mistake?
Q8:
1. When did Dick get mixed up?
2. When did Dick make a mistake?
3. At what point was Dick mistaken?
Q9:
1. Did Tom want to turn around?
2. Was Tom wishing to turn back?
3. Did Tom feel it best to go back?
Q10:
1. Did the group turn back?
2. Did the group retreat?
3. Did the boys go back to where they came from?
Q11:
1. What did the boys reach?
2. What did the group get to?
3. What was the group's destination?
Q12:
1. When did the group get to the edge of the swamp?
2. How long did it take the boys to reach the edge of the swamp?
3. After how much time did the boys arrive at the swamp's edge?
Q13:
1. 
2. 
3. 
