Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Hack Driver NCERT Solutions | Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbou

Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? (Hint: Notice that the hack driver asks the lawyer to keep out of sight behind him when they go into Fritz’s.) Can you find other such subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?

What does he say about Lutkins?

When the lawyer reached New Mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer?

Who is Lutkins?

Does the narrator serve the summons that day?

Who befriends him? Where does he take him?

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?

After his first day’s experience with the hack driver the lawyer thinks of returning to New Mullion to practise law. Do you think he would have reconsidered this idea after his second visit?

Do you think the lawyer was gullible? How could he have avoided being taken for a ride?

Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

How did the invisible man first become visible?

How did a book become a turning point in Richard Ebright’s life?

What kind of a person is Mme Loisel — why is she always unhappy?

Why is Bholi’s father worried about her?

Why was the twentieth century called the ‘Era of the Book’?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?

Why does Mrs Hall find the scientist eccentric?

What would have happened to Matilda if she had confessed to her friend that she had lost her necklace?

Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?

What does Horace Danby like to collect?

Noodle avoids offending Think-Tank but at the same time he corrects his mistakes. How does he manage to do that?

If you were in Noodle’s place, how would you handle Think-Tank’s mistakes?

Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

What does he say about the different reactions of people when they are robbed?

Why does not Anil hand the thief over to the police? Do you think most people would have done so? In what ways is Anil different from such employers?

Why does Mrs Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?