Chapter 19 Brown and I Exchange Compliments 

Two trips later, I got into serious trouble. Brown was steering; I was 'pulling down.' My younger brother appeared on the hurricane deck, and shouted to Brown to stop at some landing or other a mile or so below. Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything. But that was his way: he never condescended to take notice of an under clerk. The wind was blowing; Brown was deaf (although he always pretended he wasn't), and I very much doubted if he had heard the order. If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still. 

Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation. Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said-- 

'Let her come around, sir, let her come around. Didn't Henry tell you to land here?' 

'NO, sir!' 

'I sent him up to do, it.' 

'He did come up; and that's all the good it done, the dod-derned fool. He never said anything.' 

'Didn't YOU hear him?' asked the captain of me. 

Of course I didn't want to be mixed up in this business, but there was no way to avoid it; so I said-- 

'Yes, sir.' 

I knew what Brown's next remark would be, before he uttered it; it was-- 

'Shut your mouth! you never heard anything of the kind.' 

I closed my mouth according to instructions. An hour later, Henry entered the pilot-house, unaware of what had been going on. He was a thoroughly inoffensive boy, and I was sorry to see him come, for I knew Brown would have no pity on him. Brown began, straightway-- 

Answer this series of questions:

1. When did the subject get into trouble?
2. What was Brown doing?
3. Who was shouting?
4. Where was the younger brother?
5. How much farther did he want Brown to go?
6. Did Brown answer back?
7. Why not?
8. What was the younger brother in relation to Brown?
9. Why else might Brown have not answered?
10. Was he open about this?
11. Were there calm winds that day?
12. Why did the subject not speak up?
13. Who else arrived?
14. Did he ask a question?
15. What was it?
16. And did he?

Numbered answers:
1. Two trips later
2. steering
3. the narrator's younger brother
4. on the hurricane deck
5. a mile or so
6. No
7. It was his way
8. an under clerk
9. because he's also deaf
10. No
11. No
12. He only has one head
13. Captain Klinefelter
14. Yes
15. "Didn't Henry tell you to land here?'
16. No