Question

how did uncle Podger use the hammer while hanging the picture of three men in a boat

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.
While trying to embed the nail into the wall , for hanging the picture, he got his thumb smashed with the hammer.
When he used the hammer second time , he hit the nail so hard ,that it went into the plaster of the wall , along with half part of the hammer with it
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.

Answer 2

$\textbf{\large{Answer -}}$

Uncle podger is an important character of the novel who was very much self obsessed and always bragged that he is the only one in house who does a sort of work.

But reality was totally different.

While hanging the picture, he indulged other people still taking all the credits.

He was making other people search for his coat while he was sitting on it.

Next moment he hits his hand by hammer and aslo falls down of the ladder.