As Jessie climbed down into the rowboat, Lana scooted over on the bench to make room for her. "We have to pick up Martin now," Lana said, handing Jessie one of the oars. "And we should hurry so we can be long gone before
the patrol barge comes by."
Lana hadn't told Mom where she was going. Her mother had been smoothing a washcloth over Damon's forehead as Lana had
headed out. When her mother had asked where she was off to, Lana had tossed out some vague explanation. It was better for
Mom not to worry. She had enough to worry about these days. They all did.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt