Question 2 - High School English I: Reading Practice Test for the STAAR test

“Rows not only began with great facility, but spread with marvelous ease and rapidity.”

“Men were lounging at the bar or playing a noisy game at pool, or gathered round the faro-table, over which presided Mr. Varley Howard, the professional gambler of Three Star and other camps.”

“So it was with cheerful alacrity that the men gathered round the two who were credited with starting the shindy, and pulled out revolvers and bowie-knives for the free fight which everybody knew would set in with the usual severity.”

“There was a really lovely row on at Dan MacGrath’s Eldorado Saloon in Three Star Camp.”