Lesson Name- Hack Driver, IMP.
Q & Ans., Noted by P.B.
*1.What does the young lawyer
say about his life during the training period?
Why was he sent to New
Mullion?
What does he first think about
the place?
Ans:-
The narrator had graduated
with honours at Law. He was a junior assistant clerk in a law firm. The
narrator had to do some toiling/hard work under the firm viz. He had to go
dirty and shadowy corners of the city to serve summons preparing legal brief. Sometimes, he was beaten up. He hated this
type of work. He felt better in his home town where he could perform a real
lawyer without any training.
One day, the lawyer was asked to serve summons to a
person named Mr. Oliver Lutkins. Lutkins was a resident of New Mullion. The
young lawyer was paid a visit to the mentioned place as per his duty. Lutkins
was needed as a witness in a law case.
The young lawyer thought the place New Mullion as a
sweet and a simple country village. Instead, the place New Mullion did not able
to present a good impression on him. The streets were rivers of mud. The shops
were rows of wooden. Also, the shops were either painted a sour brown or bare
of any paint at all. The roads were so bad that could not go properly.
*2.Who befriends him (the
lawyer)? Or: What does the Lawyer say about Lutkins?
Where does Lutkins take the
narrator or the lawyer?
Or: Give a description of the
journey made by Bill and the young lawyer from the Fritz’s to Gray’s barbar
shop.
Or:- Describe Bill and the
lawyer’s search for Oliver Lutkins till it was lunch time.
Ans:-
The young lawyer or the
narrator informed that the place New Mullion did not able to present a good
impression on him. Only, he was satisfied with the delivery man or Bill. He was
about forty years old. His face was red. He was cheerful and thick about the
middle. His working clothes were dirty and well-worn. He had a friendly manner.
Any one felt at once that he liked people very much. His presence and honest
behaviour trusted the narrator or the young lawyer’s heart.
The delivery man informed
the narrator that Lutkins owed him too and started their journey. The man said
that he would go to Fritz’s shop. They went there but could not find Lutkins.
Fritz informed Bill that Lutkins was there a litter while ago. They thought
that Lutkins had perhaps left for Gustaff’s barber shop to get a shave.
Then, both of them/they went to the shop of
Gustaff to ask whereabouts Lutkins. A customer informed them that he had
seen Lutkins going down the main street.
But make a conjecture that Lutkins might have gone to
Gray’s barber shop. When they reached at Gray’s barber
shop, they missed Lutkins by only five minutes.
They told that Lutkins might have gone for the
poolroom. Even, at the pool, they could not find
any trace/sign of Lutkins.
The narrator was hungry
after executing a series of search. After their meal, they went to a friend of
Lutkins and then they went to Lutkin’s mother farm. They could not find Lutkins
in all the places. So, the lawyer returned from there with an empty hand at
last.
*3.What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?
Or:- What did Bill tell the young lawyer about Oliver Lutkins
before they started to find him out?
Or:- What did Bill say about Oliver’s mother?
Describe briefly the lawyer’s experience when he was led to
Oliver mother’s farm house.
Ans:-
(About Lutkins:- ) Bill
informed the lawyer that he also wanted to collect some money from Lutkins. He
said that Lutkins never paid anybody a cent. He still owed him fifty cents on a
poker game. Lutkins was not really bad but it was hard to make him part with
his money. If anyone tried to collect from him, in those fancy clothes, he
would be suspicious and got away from him or her.
(About Oliver’s (Lutkins) mother:-) Bill also informed about Oliver’s mother. She
was a terror. Once, bill took a trunk out from Lutkin’s mother farm for her
once. Then, she almost took his skin off because he did not treat that like a
box of eggs. She was about nine feet tall and four feet thick. She was as quick
as a cat and she sure could talk. He (Bill) would bet Oliver heard that
somebody was chasing him and he had gone on there to hide behind his mother’s
skirts.
At Lutkin’s mother farm:- When
Bill and the lawyer went to the Lutkin’s mother farm, they faced an enormous
and cheerful old woman. Bill asked her if she remembered him. Bill informed
that he was Bill Magnuson, the carter and the hackman. He wanted to find her
son, Oliver. Then, the old woman shouted and said that she did not know
anything about Oliver and she did not want to.
After that, Bill informed her that
the young man represented the court in the city and they had a legal right to
search all properties for that Oliver Lutkins. On hearing those, she went into
the kitchen and they followed her. She seized an iron from the old-fashioned
stove and marched on them shouting. She shouted and laughed at their frightened
retreat. Then, they fled away from there and they suspected of murder by her.
These are happened at the Oliver
Lutkin’s mother farm.
*4.Who was Lutkins?
Does the narrator or the
young lawyer serve the summons that day?
Had the lawyer succeed to
find Lutkins? Or How did the lawyer find Lutkins?
Ans:-
Lutkins was a resident
of New Mullion. He was about forty years old. His face was red. He was cheerful
and thick about the middle. His working clothes were dirty and well-worn. He
had a friendly manner. Any one felt at once that he liked people very much. His
presence and honest behaviour trusted the narrator or the young lawyer’s heart.
He was also known as Bill or Magnuson.
No, the narrator or the
young lawyer could not serve the summons that day. Because, he could not
recognise Lutkins at first. He thought that Lutkins and Bill were two separate
persons. Bill befooled the lawyer that day. So, he could not success his job
for the day.
The next day at the office,
he was welcomed with rebuking from his boss. He was again sent back to New
Mullion with another man who had worked with Lutkins. When they reached at the
station, the lawyer pointed out to Bill and said that he was a fine fellow, a
real man and he would help in searching of Lutkins. The lawyer was baffled/surprised
when his companion told him that Bill was Lutkins himself. At last, he could
find Lutkins in the help of the man.
God Bless you all