Which of the following words best describes Jean?
4. If you think after reading this paragraph that it is easy to land a trout, write the word _hard_ on the fourth line. If you think it is hard, write the word _easy_ there.
Trout fishing in mountain streams is said to be the greatest sport in the world. When a trout has been caught on the hook, it is usually a question of which will tire first, the fish or the fisherman. Often the fish will get the best of it and the fisherman be forced to go home with a broken rod and no fish for his pains.
5. If in the following words _c_ is found with _h_ more often than with _r_, write _church_ on the fifth line. But if _c_ is found more often with _r_, write _crown_ there.
6. On the sixth line write any words in this sentence which have the same number of letters as the fourth word of the sentence, but which have no letters in common.
7. If a soldier wears out a pair of shoes every month, how many pairs of shoes will be needed for a regiment of 3000 men for a year of service?
This is the story of Verdun Belle, a trench dog, who adopted a young leatherneck, followed him to the edge of the battle around Chateau-Thierry and was waiting for him when they carried him out. It is a true story.
Belle was a setter, shabby white, with great splotches of chocolate brown in her coat. Her ears were brown and silken. She was under size and would not have stood a chance among the haughtier breeds shown in splendor at dog shows in Madison Square Garden. But the marines in the regiment to which she attached herself thought there never was a dog like her since the world began.
No one in the regiment knew whence she came or why. When she joined the outfit in a _sector_ near Verdun, she singled out one of the privates as her very own and attached herself to him for the duration of the war. The young marine would talk long and earnestly to her, and every one declared that Belle could "_comprè_" English.
She used to curl up at his feet when he slept or follow silently to keep him company at the _listening post_. She would sit hopefully in front of him whenever he settled down with his laden _mess kit_, which the cooks always heaped extra high in honor of Belle.
