Question

Q1) They were days of deep content, starting well with the extra egg in the

morning, improved and sustained by the midday wine and finishing luxuriously

round the fire with the brandy.

a) Identify the speaker of the sentence.

b) Which days is the speaker talking about?

c) Why does the speaker say that, those days were ‘days of deep content’?

d) Who was sending the supply of eggs and win​

Answer 1

a) Speaker of the sentence is the author, James Herriot.

b) The speaker is talking about the days when he had Tricki in his hospital for treatment.

c) Those were the days of deep content because both, the author and his staff were enjoying the eggs, expensive wine and brandy that Mrs. Pumphrey used to send for Tricki.

d) Mrs. Pumphrey, Tricki's mistress was sending the supply of eggs and wine.