Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter A Triumph of Surgery NCERT Solutions | Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki

Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?

What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he is tactful as well as full of commonsense?

How does he treat the dog?

Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?

Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?

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

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

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

Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?

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

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?

Who is Fowler and what is his first authentic thrill of the day?

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?

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?

How does Ausable manage to make Max believe that there is a balcony attached to his room? Look back at his detailed description of it. What makes it a convincing story?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

How is Ausable different from other secret agents?

How did his mother help him?

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?

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

Bholi’s story must have moved you. Do you think girl children are not treated at par with boys? You are aware that the government has introduced a scheme to save the girl child as the sex ratio is declining. The scheme is called Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Save the Girl Child. Read about the scheme and design a poster in groups of four and display on the school notice board.

“Horace Danby was good and respectable — but not completely honest”. Why do you think this description is apt for Horace? Why can’t he be categorised as a typical thief?