Of course, I had to turn every mortal thing out now, and, of course, I could not find it. I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned. Of course, I found George’s and Harris’s eighteen times over, but I couldn’t find my own. I put the things back one by one, and held everything up and shook it. Then I found it inside a boot. I repacked once more.
He came and sat down on things, just when they wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold damp nose that they wanted. He put his leg into the jam, and he worried the teaspoons, and he pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the hamper and killed three of them before Harris could land him with the frying-pan.
(i) What problem did the narrator face while packing?
(ii) What condition did the narrator create while searching for the item?
(iii) How did the narrator finally find the missing item?
(iv) What did the narrator do after finding the item?
(v) What belief was the dog under during packing?
(vi) How did the dog interfere with the packing?
(vii) What did the dog do with the lemons?
(viii) Find the words from the passage that mean:
(a) complete disorder$\quad$(b) to search thoroughly and untidily
View full solution →He came and sat down on things, just when they wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold damp nose that they wanted. He put his leg into the jam, and he worried the teaspoons, and he pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the hamper and killed three of them before Harris could land him with the frying-pan.
(i) What problem did the narrator face while packing?
(ii) What condition did the narrator create while searching for the item?
(iii) How did the narrator finally find the missing item?
(iv) What did the narrator do after finding the item?
(v) What belief was the dog under during packing?
(vi) How did the dog interfere with the packing?
(vii) What did the dog do with the lemons?
(viii) Find the words from the passage that mean:
(a) complete disorder$\quad$(b) to search thoroughly and untidily