Q1. Given below are some of the events in the story. Arrange them in the
correct sequence.
a. The Peddler steals money and takes the back roads to keep away from
people and gets lost in the jungle at night.
b. The peddler was a vagabond who sold rattraps with a little thievery on the
side to make ends meet. It amused him to think of the world as a rattrap.
c. The ironmaster then sends his daughter who persuades him to go home with
her. She notices his uncouth appearance and thinks that either he has stolen
something or he has escaped from jail.
d. Takes shelter at a crofter’s cottage. The crofter welcomes him, gives him
diner, shares his pipe, plays mjolis with him also confides in him about his
income. He also shows him where he put his money.
e. The compassionate Edla convinces her father that he should spend the
Christmas day with him.
f. The iron master and his daughter find a letter addressed to Edla, signed as
Captain Von Stahl and a rattrap as a gift from the peddler. In the rattrap are
the three ten kroner notes of the crofter.
g. The Peddler is scrubbed, bathed, given a haircut, a shave and a suit of old
clothes belonging to the ironmaster. In the morning light, the iron master
realizes he is mistaken and that he is not the Captain.
h. Finally reaches Ramsjo ironworks, where he takes shelter for the night. The
blacksmith and his assistant ignore him but the master mistakes him to be an
old acquaintance and invites him home. Though the Peddler does not correct
the ironmaster, hoping to get some money out of him, he declines his
invitation.
i. The Ironmaster wants to call the Sheriff. The peddler is agitated and breaks
out that the world is rattrap and he too is sure to be caught in it. The
ironmaster is amused but orders him out.
j. The Peddler spends the whole of Christmas Eve eating and sleeping. The
next day at church, Edla and her father come to know that the Peddler is a
thief who has stolen the crofter’s thirty kroner.
Answers
Answer:
a. The peddler was a vagabond who sold rattraps with a little thievery on the side to make ends meet. It amused him to think of the world as a rattrap.
b. Takes shelter at a crofter’s cottage. The crofter welcomes him, gives him diner, shares his pipe, plays mjolis with him also confides in him about his
income. He also shows him where he put his money
c. The Peddler steals money and takes the back roads to keep away from people and gets lost in the jungle at night.
d. Finally reaches Ramsjo ironworks, where he takes shelter for the night. The blacksmith and his assistant ignore him but the master mistakes him to be an
old acquaintance and invites him home. Though the Peddler does not correct the ironmaster, hoping to get some money out of him, he declines his invitation.
e. The ironmaster then sends his daughter who persuades him to go home with her. She notices his uncouth appearance and thinks that either he has stolen something or he has escaped from jail.
f. The Peddler is scrubbed, bathed, given a haircut, a shave and a suit of old clothes belonging to the ironmaster. In the morning light, the iron master
realizes he is mistaken and that he is not the Captain.
g. The Ironmaster wants to call the Sheriff. The peddler is agitated and breaksout that the world is rattrap and he too is sure to be caught in it. The ironmaster is amused but orders him out.
h. The compassionate Edla convinces her father that he should spend theChristmas day with him.
I. The Peddler spends the whole of Christmas Eve eating and sleeping. The next day at church, Edla and her father come to know that the Peddler is a thief who has stolen the crofter’s thirty kroner.
j. The iron master and his daughter find a letter addressed to Edla, signed as Captain Von Stahl and a rattrap as a gift from the peddler. In the rattrap are
the three ten kroner notes of the crofter.