Question

Describe the following :-

1.Uncle podger's incident

2.Cheese incident

3.Incident related to packaging of things

4.Hampton court maze

Answer 1

1)Uncle podger's incident :-
Uncle Podger was always ready to take on a responsibility.
Once a picture had come from the french- maker's, Uncle Podger asked Aunt Podger to leave the job of hanging the picture to him.
He took off his coat  and he asked children to fetch him hammer , nails etc.
Everyone was busy obeying his instructions.
And when the picture was about to be hanged , he dropped the picture and cut himself with a broken glass.
 He moved around the room , looking for his handkerchief and  later found it in his coat pocket and his coat was underneath himself.
He moved a mess of things .
It was only after a minor incidents and injuries Uncle Podger managed to get that picture on the wall , crooker and insecure , around midnight.
He took a long time to hang it  and created a  mayhem in the house.
Finally , he declared  that some people would have had man to do a little thing like that.

2) Cheese incident :-
Tom gave the cheese to Jerome and he took it in a cab.
The horse was old , weak and sleepy.
It could hardly move.But the smell of the cheese made the horse to move swiflty like a steam roller.
At the crowded railway station , people fell back respectfully making way for him as if he were a  prince.
The carriage in which he got into , there were already other seven people.Jerome put the cheese on rack , and sat down 
But the passengers hated the smell of the cheese.
An old man and his companion began sniffing , and went out of the carriage at the next station.
A married woman believed  it was a conspiracy  to make her leave the carriage.She protested and left . The smell of the cheese reminded one of the co passengers of a dead baby,
The other passengers tried to get in such  a  way that hurt themselves.
The last co passenger was depressed.
Now Jerome had the carriage all by himself .
Many passengers got into it but turned back as soon as they stepped into it.

3)Packing incident :-
The three friends bought all the things they needed during their trip and they were piled in a heap in the middle of the room waiting to be packed.
The narrator was proud of his skill in packing
He wanted to impress George and Harris and told them to leave the entire matter to him.
To his utter surprise they readily agreed to the suggestion and George put a pipe and sprawled himself in the easy chair.
Harris cocked his leg the table .
This irritated the narrator becausehe wanted George and Harris to do the packing , while he wanted to supervise them and instruct them how to pack.
But George and Harris took him at his words literally .


4) Hampton court maze :-
Harris had been to a Hampton court maze with a cousin.
He studied the map carefully and believed that he would get out of it in 10 minutes.
He met some people who had been in the maze for three quarters of an hour ,and were lost. They didn't know how to get out of it.
Harris told them that they could follow him and he would get them out of it , in no time.
They happily followed him , and on the way more lost people joined him.
Harris believed that  if one kept turning  to right , he could get out of it without difficulty.
He tried turning to the right again and again but came back to the same place.
Harris's followers lost their patience and looked menacingly at him.
Harris also thought they he also got lost in the maze.
They called a keeper who came and lead them out of the maze.

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