The peddler comes out as a person with a subtle sense of humour. How does this serve in lightening the seriousness of the theme of the story and also endear him to us?

1. He made them himself at odd moments. 2. He raised himself. 3. He had let himself be fooled by a bait and had been caught. 4. … a day may come when you yourself may want to get a big piece of pork. Notice the way in which these reflexive pronouns have been used (pronoun + self) In 1 and 4 the reflexive pronouns "himself" and "yourself" are used to convey emphasis. In 2 and 3 the reflexive pronoun is used in place of personal pronoun to signal that it refers to the same subject in the sentence. Pick out other examples of the use of reflexive pronouns from the story and notice how they are used.

In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S_(1)) and the final sentence (S_(6)) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark accordingly on the Answer Sheet S_(1) : A gentleman trying to get a fly out of the milk or a piece of cork out of his glass of wine often imagines himself to be irritated. S_(6) : But I pointed out to him that this sense of wrong was really subjective and relative, it rested entirely upon the assumption that the drawer could, should, and would come out easily. P : Again, I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out. Q : Everyday his drawer was jammed, and everyday in consequence it was something else that rhymes to it. R : A friend of mine was particularly afflicted in this way. S : Let him think for a moment of the patience of anglers sitting by dark pools, and let this soul be immediately irradiated with gratification and repose. The proper sequence should be :