Solution of Chapter 8. The Hack Driver (Footprints without Feet Book)

Why is the lawyer sent to New Mullion? What does he first think about the place?

Who befriends him? Where does he take him?

What does he say about Lutkins?

What more does Bill say about Lutkins and his family?

Does the narrator serve the summons that day?

Who is Lutkins?

when the lawyer reached New Mullion, did ‘Bill’ know that he was looking for Lutkins? When do you think Bill came up with his plan for fooling the lawyer?

Lutkins openly takes the lawyer all over the village. How is it that no one lets out the secret? (Hint: Notice that the hack driver asks the lawyer to keep out of sight behind him when they go into Fritz’s).

Can you find other such subtle ways in which Lutkins manipulates the tour?

Why do you think Lutkins’s neighbours were anxious to meet the lawyer?

After his first day’s experience with the hack-driver the lawyer thinks of returning to New Mullion to practice law. Do you think he would have reconsidered this idea after his second visit?

Do you think the lawyer was gullible? How could he have avoided being taken for a ride?

Do we come across persons like Lutkins only in fiction or do we encounter them in real life as well? You can give example from fiction, or narrate an incident that you have read in the newspaper, or an incident from real life.

Who is a ‘con man’, or a confidence trickster?