CHAPTER I 

THE BOYS OF OAK HALL 

"Hello, Dave; where are you bound?" 

"For the river, Phil. I am going out for a row. Want to come along?" 

"That suits me," answered Phil Lawrence, throwing down the astronomy he had been studying. "But I can't stay out late," he added, reaching for his cap. "Got two examples in algebra to do. Have you finished up?" 

"Yes," answered Dave Porter. "They are not so hard." 

"And your Latin?" 

"That's done, too." 

Phil Lawrence eyed the boy before him admiringly. "Dave, I don't see how you manage it. You're always on deck for fun, and yet you scarcely miss a lesson. Let me into the secret, won't you?" 

"That's right, Dave; pull the cover off clean and clear," came from a youth who had just entered the school dormitory. "If I can get lessons without studying----" 

"Oh, Roger, you know better than that," burst out Dave Porter, with a smile. "Of course I have to study--just the same as anybody. But when I study, I study, and when I play, I play. I've found out that it doesn't pay to mix the two up--it is best to buckle your mind down to the thing on hand and to nothing else." 

"That's the talk," came from a boy resting on one of the beds. "It puts me in mind of a story I once heard about a fellow who fell from the roof of a house to the ground----" 

"There goes Shadow again!" cried Roger Morr. "Shadow, will you ever get done telling chestnuts?"  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was studied by Phil?
2. What did Phil study?
3. 
Q2:
1. Which person was Phil talking to?
2. With whom was Phil speaking with?
3. 
Q3:
1. What was Dave’s family name?
2. What was Dave’s full name?
3. 
Q4:
1. Which person was resting on one of the beds?
2. What person was resting on one of the beds?
3. 
Q5:
1. Where was Dave about to go?
2. What place was Dave about to go?
3. 
Q6:
1. Did Dave propose to Phil to join him?
2. Did Dave mention Phil should join him?
3. 
Q7:
1. Which person was done with their work?
2. What person was done with their work?
3. 
Q8:
1. How many examples did Phil have to do?
2. What number of examples did Phil have to do?
3. 
Q9:
1. What subject was Phil working on?
2. What subject did Phil have homework to do in?
3. 
Q10:
1. Besides algebra, what other subject is mentioned?
2. Other than algebra, what other subject is mentioned?
3. 
Q11:
1. Which person just entered the dorm?
2. What person just entered the dorm?
3. 
Q12:
1. According to Dave, what two things couldn’t be done at the same time?
2. According to Dave what two things shouldn’t be mixed?
3. 
Q13:
1. What was Roger’s family name?
2. What was Roger’s full name?
3. 
