the names of the troopers are their real names.

1. Do you get a clear picture of Drake from the description? Why
are several pages given to telling his past career?

2. Where does the real story begin?

3. Who was the tramp at the Carlisle Station? When did you guess
it?

4. What are the principles of the State Police, as you see them in
this story?

5. Why was such an organization necessary? Is there one in your
state?

6. What new words did you find in this story? Define aura,
primeval, grisly.

THE STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPH OF ISIDRO

In this story the author introduces a number of unfamiliar words,
chiefly of Spanish origin, which are current in the Philippines. The
meanings are given below.

_baguio_, hurricane.
_barrio_, ward; district.
_carabao_, a kind of buffalo, used as a work animal.
_cabo_, head officer.
_cibay_, a boys' game.
_daledale_, hurry up!
_de los Reyes_, of the King.
_de la Cruz_, of the cross.
_hacienda_, a large plantation.
_ladrones_, robbers.
_maestro_, teacher.
_nipa_, a palm tree or the thatch made from it.
_palay_, rice.
_pronto_, quickly.
_pueblo_, town.
_que barbaridad!_--what an atrocious thing!
_volador_, kite.

1. Why does the story end with Isidro's crying? What did this
signify? What is the relation of this to the beginning of the
story?

2. Has this story a central idea? What is it?

3. This might be called a story of local color, in that it gives in
some detail the atmosphere of an unfamiliar locality. What are the
best descriptive passages in the story?

4. Judging from this story, what are some of the difficulties a
school teacher meets with in the Philippines? What must he be
besides a teacher?

5. What other school stories are there in this book? The pupils in
Emmy Lou's school, (in Louisville, Ky.) are those with several
generations of American ancestry behind them; in Myra Kelly's
story, they are the children of foreign parents; in this story they
are still in a foreign land--that is, a land where they are not
surrounded by American influences. The public school is the one
experience that is common to them all, and therefore the greatest
single force in bringing them all to share in a common ideal, to
reverence the grea