Class 10 English - Footprints Without Feet - Chapter The Hack Driver NCERT Solutions | Who is Lutkins?

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?

Why do you think Lutkins’ neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

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 befriends him? Where does he take him?

Does the narrator serve the summons that day?

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

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

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?

Did you begin to suspect, before the end of the story, that the lady was not the person Horace Danby took her to be? If so, at what point did you realise this, and how?

How does the thief think Anil will react to the theft?

What other extraordinary things happen at the inn?

Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?

Who is speaking to Horace Danby?

What does he get from Anil in return for his work?

What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?

What was the cause of Matilda’s ruin? How could she have avoided it?

What guesses are made by Think–Tank about the books found on earth?

How does Ausable say he got in?