CHAPTER XV 

Mr. Amos Cuthbert named it so--our old friend Amos who lives high up in the ether of Town's End ridge, and who now represents Coniston in the Legislature. He is the same silent, sallow person as when Jethro first took a mortgage on his farm, only his skin is beginning to resemble dried parchment, and he is a trifle more cantankerous. On the morning of that memorable day when, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" came to the capital, Amos had entered the Throne Room and given vent to his feelings in regard to the gentleman in the back seat who had demanded an evening sitting on behalf of the farmers. 

"Don't that beat all?" cried Amos. "Let them have their darned woodchuck session; there won't nobody go to it. For cussed, crisscross contrariness, give me a moss-back Democrat from a one-boss, one-man town like Suffolk. I'm a-goin' to see the show." 

"G-goin' to the show, be you, Amos?" said Jethro. 

"Yes, I be," answered Amos, bitterly. "I hain't agoin' nigh the house to-night." And with this declaration he departed. 

"I wonder if he really is going?" queried Mr. Merrill looking at the ceiling. And then he laughed. 

"Why shouldn't he go?" asked William Wetherell. 

Mr. Merrill's answer to this question was a wink, whereupon he, too, departed. And while Wetherell was pondering over the possible meaning of these words the Honorable Alva Hopkins entered, wreathed in smiles, and closed the door behind him. 

"It's all fixed," he said, taking a seat near Jethro in the window. 

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who asked Amos if he was going to the show?
2. Was he going?
3. was he happy about going?
4. What was Amos' last name?
5. Who took a mortgage out on their farm?
6. Who winked?
7. was Jethro sitting near the window?
8. Who was pondering?
9. Where does Amos live?
10. Who does Amos represent?
11. Who left?
12. Did Mr.Merrill wonder if Amos was actually going?
13. Who was laughing?
14. Who left after Amos left?
15. Who came in the rooms smiling?
16. Who sat next to Jethro?
17. Did he say anything when he entered the room?
18. what did he say as he sat down?
19. What came to the capital?
20. Who vented their feelings?

Numbered answers:
1. Jethro.
2. yes
3. no
4. Cuthbert
5. Jethro
6. Mr. Merrill
7. yes
8. Wetherell
9. high up in the ether of Town's End ridge
10. Coniston in the Legislature
11. Amos
12. yes
13. Mr. Merrill
14. Mr. Merrill
15. Alva Hopkins
16. Alva Hopkins
17. yes
18. "It's all fixed,"
19. "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
20. Amos