CHAPTER XXIX 

"Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him," Collins told Johnny. "I know Del Mar must have been right when he said he was the limit, but I can't get a clue to it." 

This followed upon a fight between Michael and Collins. Michael, more morose than ever, had become even crusty-tempered, and, scarcely with provocation at all, had attacked the man he hated, failing, as ever, to put his teeth into him, and receiving, in turn, a couple of smashing kicks under his jaw. 

"He's like a gold-mine all right all right," Collins meditated, "but I'm hanged if I can crack it, and he's getting grouchier every day. Look at him. What'd he want to jump me for? I wasn't rough with him. He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day." 

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale. 

"I've only got one left now," he explained, "and I ain't safe without two." 

"What's happened to the other one?" the master-trainer queried. 

"Alphonso--that's the big buck leopard--got nasty this morning and settled his hash. I had to put him out of his misery. He was gutted like a horse in the bull-ring. But he saved me all right. If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often. That's the second dog he's killed for me."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What did Collins tell Johnny that he had to do?
2. What was Johnny told by Collins that he needed to do?
3. 
Q2:
1. What is the name of the person that Collins told: "Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him,"?
2. Collins told which person: "Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him,"?
3. 
Q3:
1. What is the name of the person that must've been right, according to Collins?
2. Collins that which person must've been right?
3. 
Q4:
1. What did Collins meditate that Del Mar was like?
2. What was Del Mar like, according to Collins?
3. 
Q5:
1. What are the names of the people that fought?
2. A fight broke out between which two people?
3. 
Q6:
1. What is the name of the person that had a fight with someone that he hated?
2. What is the person that had a fight with someone that he hated called?
3. 
Q7:
1. Was Collins rough with the person that jumped him?
2. Had Collins been rough with the person that decided to jump him?
3. 
Q8:
1. How is one of the patrons described?
2. What description is given of one of the patrons?
3. 
Q9:
1. What is the name of the place where one of the patrons was performing?
2. One of the patrons was performing at what location?
3. 
Q10:
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3. 
