From the Diary of Anne Frank

 

Class X

Foot Prints Without Feet 

Lesson 1: Triumph of Surgery

Question 1. Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
Answer: Mrs Pumphrey is worried about Tricki because he is unwell. He has refused to eat food and had bouts of vomiting. She feels that he is suffering from a serious health issue such as malnutrition.

Question 2. What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
Answer: Mrs Pumphrey starts giving him extra snacks like malt, cod-liver oil and Horlicks to improve his condition. She also gave him cream cakes and chocolates. She does not give him any exercise. She is not wise in doing so because overfeeding Tricki is worsening his conditions instead of improving it. It has made him very fat and lazy.

Question 3: How does he treat the dog? Or What is Tricki's ailment? How did Dr. Herriot treat him?

Answer: Tricki was Mrs. Pumphery's pet dog. She loved  him so much. She pampered him. She thinks that she is weak. So, She began to give him extra food to build his body. Tricki was a greedy dog. He did no know no limit of eating. Soon he becam ill. He had not any actual illness. He had bloated like a bag of meat. Dr. Herriot was worried about it. He took him to his surgery. He gave him nothing to eat but a lot of water to drink. He had to struggle with other dogs for food. Soon he became a healty and sturdy dog. Mrs. Pumphery thought it was a triumph of surgery.

Lesson: 2. A Thief's Stroy

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Q. Who was Hari Singh? What was his profession?

Ans. Hari Singh was a boy of 15. He was an uneducated homelss boy. He worked in people's house and robbed them. He was a thief.

Q. Who was anil? What was his profession?

Ans. Anil was a young man of 25. He lived at a room over Jamuna Sweet Shop. He earned his living by fits and starts. He was a writer who wrote for magazines.

Q. How did Anil reformed Hari Singh? Or Character Sketch of Anil?

Ans. Anil was a kind person. He simple and easy going young man. He was tall and lean. He is interested in sports like wrestling . He was not very rich and could not employ Hari Singh as a cook. He had the patience and goodness. He taught Hari Singh to cook. He also taught him to read , write and add numbers. He knew that Hari Singh stole his money but he ignored this fact. Anil was a writer. He wrote for magazines and made money in fits and starts. He was a very trusting person. He was generous and paid Hari Singh when he got some money. Hari Singh had tried to steal the money from him. Anil forgave Hari Singh.  Thus, he transformed Hari Singh from a thief to a good fellow.

Lesson 3: Foot Prints without Feet

Q. 1. Who was Griffin?

Ans. Griffin was a lawless person. He was a scientist. He discovered a rare drug to make human body invisible. He had an irritable temper.

Q. 2. How did Griffin choose a bad time to wander about in London without clothes?

Ans. He swallowed the drug and became transparent like a glass but his body remained solid. He had to removed his cloths. It was a bad time because the air was bitterly cold. He could not do without cloths.

Q. 3. Why does Mrs Hall find the scientist eccentric?

Ans. Mrs Hall found the scientist eccentric because of his strange appearance and also, when she tried to be friendly with him, he rebuffed her by saying that he hacLcome there for solitude and did not wish to be disturbed in his work.

Q. 4. What curious episode occurs in the study?

Ans. Very early one morning, a clergyman and his wife were awakened by noises coming from their study. Then they heard the sound of coins being taken from the desk there. However, when they entered the study, they did not find anybody there, which was curious.

Q. 5. Give brief character sketch of Griffin.

Griffin was the main character of the lesson ‘Footprints without Feet’. He was a scientist, yet he had many flaws in his character. He had no conscience. He was not kind to others. He discovered a rare drug to make human body invisible. He does not use his intelligence for the human welfare. He stole things from a shop and beat the shopkeeper. He stole money from his landlady’s house. He beat the landlady and her husband. He beat the policeman who arrived to arrest him. We can say that Griffin was a brilliant scientist but he was a lawless person. He was a criminal. He was a threat to society.