PACKING EXTRA QUESTION ANSWER ONLY FOR REFRENCE (DONT HAVE TO WRITE IN YOUR NOTE BOOK )

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Comprehension Questions 
What did the narrator pride himself on? 
(ANS)The narrator prided himself on packing. Packing is one of those many things that he felt that he knew more about than any other person living. 
How did the narrator intend to do the packing for their trip? 
(ANS)The narrator had intended to be the boss for the job of packing. He wanted Harris and George to potter about under his directions.  His aim was to teach them. 
What irritated him about the behaviour of Harris and George?
(ANS) When the narrator told his friends that he would pack, George spread himself over the easy-chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table. Their taking his suggestion that way irritated him. There is nothing that irritated him more than seeing other people sitting about doing nothing when he was working. 
Why couldn’t the narrator sit still and see another man slaving and working?
(ANS)The narrator couldn’t sit still and see another man slaving and working because he wanted to get up and superintend and walk around with his hands in his pockets and tell him what to do. According to him it was his energetic nature and he couldn’t help it. 
What was the state of the bag that the narrator had packed while he was trying to find his toothbrush? 
(ANS)The narrator turned everything out of the bag but couldn’t find the tooth brush. He had rummaged things up so much that he compares it to the chaos that reigned before the world was created. 
How and where did he find his toothbrush?
(ANS)The narrator turned everything out of the bag but couldn’t find the tooth brush The narrator found Harris and George’s toothbrush eighteen times over but couldn’t find his own. He put the things back one by one, held everything up and shook them. He found the toothbrush inside a boot. 
Why did the narrator feel that things would become exciting when Harris and George began packing?
(ANS)Harris and George offered to pack the hampers because Jerome had taken a long time in packing the bags and hampers had yet to be packed. They also wanted to show their expertise to Jerome. Jerome looked at the piles of plates and cups, kettles and bottles, jars and stoves, pies, cakes and tomatoes and felt that things would become exciting. 
What did the narrator do while Harris and George packed the hampers? How did that affect them?
(ANS)The narrator did not say anything while the Harris and George were packing the hampers. He sat on the edge of the table and watched them. This irritated them, made them nervous and excited. They stepped on things, put things behind them. As a result couldn’t find them when they wanted them. They put the light things below the heavy ones and smashed them. 
“I never saw two men do more with one - and two pence of butter in my whole life.” Explain.
(ANS)While they were packing the hampers, George trod on the butter. After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle. It wouldn’t go in, and what was in wouldn’t come out. They did scrape it out at last, and put it down on a chair, and Harris sat on it, and it stuck to him, and they went looking for it all over the room till George saw it behind Harris’ back . He got it off from there and packed it in a teapot. 
How did Montmorency trouble Harris and George while they were packing the hampers? 
(ANS)Montmorency came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold damp nose that they wanted. He put his leg into the jam, and he worried the teaspoons, and he pretended that the lemons were rats, and got into the hamper and killed three of them before Harris could land him with the frying-pan. 
‘I said I generally preferred to sleep inside a bed. Harris said it was odd.  Why did Harris find it odd? 
(ANS)Harris must have found it odd because one doesn’t sleep inside a bed , one sleeps on it. 
What did the narrator and Harris do when they found that George had been asleep for sometime while they were arguing over the time to wake up? 
(ANS) George was to wake up the other two friends in the morning for their trip. While Harris and Jerome were arguing over the time, George fell asleep. So, Harris and Jerome placed the bath where he could tumble into it on getting out in the morning and went to bed.