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the trouble began in laredo. it was the llano kid’s fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to mexicans. but the kid was past twenty; and to have only mexicans to one’s credit at twenty is to blush unseen on the rio grande border. it happened in old justo valdos’s gambling house. there was a poker game at which sat players who were not all friends, as happens often where men ride in from afar to shoot folly as she gallops. there was a row over so small a matter as a pair of queens; and when the smoke had cleared away it was found that the kid had committed an indiscretion, and his adversary had been guilty of a blunder. for, the unfortunate combatant, instead of being a greaser, was a high-blooded youth from the cow ranches, of about the kid’s own age and possessed of friends and champions. his blunder in missing the kid’s right ear only a sixteenth of an inch when he pulled his gun did not lessen the indiscretion of the better marksman.
the kid, not being equipped with a retinue, nor bountifully supplied with personal admirers and supporters—on account of a rather umbrageous reputation, even for the border - considered it not incompatible with his indispensable gameness to perform that judicious tractional act known as “pulling his freight” quickly the avengers gathered and sought him. three of them overtook him within a rod of the station. the kid turned and showed his teeth in that brilliant but mirthless smile that usually preceded his deeds of insolence and violence, and his pursuers fell back without making it necessary for him even to reach for his weapon. but in this affair the kid had not felt the grim thirst for encounter that usually urged him on to battle. it had been a purely chance row, born of the cards and certain epithets impossible for a gentleman to brook that had passed between the two. the kid had rather liked the slim, haughty, brown-faced young chap whom his bullet had cut off in the first pride of manhood. and now he wanted no more blood. he wanted to get away and have a good long sleep somewhere in the sun on the mesquit grass with his handkerchief over his face. even a mexican might have crossed his path in safety while he was in this mood. the kid openly boarded the north-bound passenger train that departed five minutes later. but at webb, a few miles out, where it was flagged to take on a traveller, he abandoned that manner of escape. there were telegraph stations ahead; and the kid looked askance at electricity and steam. saddle and spur were his rocks of safety… a double-dyed deceiver by o’henry
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1.who’s the main character of the story?
2.what was the main character famous for?
3.where does the story take place?
4.why did the quarrel start?
5.what happened in the end of the piece of the story?
6. The English King was the King of New England and other colonies.
7. Washington (district of Columbia) is the capital of the US. New York – one of the largest capitals of business. Orlando the most colorful city in Florida. Los Angeles – a huge city, the personifications of the American and Las Vegas of course!
8. There are 100 cents in a dollar.
12.The red, white and blue colors to be used in the flag.
13. There are 50 stars on the flag representing the 50 states that make up the USA.
14. The thirteen stripes represent the original thirteen colonies. The number of the stripes 13 – signifies the 13 colonies of the time. The red ,historically, represents the British while the white stripes cutting through the red is a political statement against Great Britain and its rule over the colonies.
16. The Independence Day.
17.Doctrine and Covenants
18.People say Washington DC not to confuse this city with the name of a state Washington DC in the northwest of the country.
20. The olive use as symbol of peace. The olive tree represented plenty, but the ancient Greeks believed that it also drove away evil spirits.
9. Present day US coins produced for circulation include the penny (1 cent), nickel (5 cent), dime (10 cent), quarter dollar (25 cent), half dollar (50 cent) and dollar coins.
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1. the first English settlements appeared in America at the beginning of the 17th century. On the 6th of September in 1620 a group of people left England for the New World. They sailed from Plymouth, on boqard the ship "Mayflower." They wnated to start a new life and have no problems with the church. They landed in the Northeast of america. There were 74 men and 28 women. They set up a colony and called that part of a country New England.
6. The English King who lived in England was the king of New England and other colonies. The colonists in America didn't like that They wanted to be free from England.
8. there are 100 cents in a dollar. Other american coins are: a dime, pennies, nickels, quarters.
There are 5 pennies in a nickel. There 2 nickels in a dime. Therea four quarters in a dollar. There are ten dimes in a dollar.
11.San Fransisco. Jeans were very strong trousers made of denim.
12,13,14. blue, red and white. 50 stars mean 50 states of the USA. 13 stripes mean first 13 colonies. People often called the american flag - the stars and stripes.
Yes, it did. The arrows mean strength. You can see an eagle on the back of a dollar bill.
16. The Independence day.
18. People say "Washigton DC" not to confuse this city with the name of a state Washington in the northwest f the country.