The Dog in the Street
He stopped the car to look at him.
↳ One accidental sighting sets the whole story going.
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A Triumph of Surgery · Class 10 English · Footprints Without Feet
English 3 topics 135 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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The Little Extras
'Nothing much really.'
He was so listless and seemed to have no energy, so she thought he must be suffering from malnutrition.
↳ Everything listed is on top of his ordinary meals.
Malnutrition, or Greed?
Two diagnoses of the same dog.
↳ The whole plot comes from that gap.
Arrival at the Surgery
Nobody was impressed.
↳ The first medicine is being treated as nothing special.
The First Three Days
Water, and nothing else.
↳ Recovery begins as curiosity, not appetite.
Joe the Greyhound
Rolled over, and accepted.
The door opened, Tricki trotted out, and Joe the greyhound and his friends closed round him at once.
↳ Not sentimental, and exactly what he needed.
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1
A Bloated Sausage With a Leg at Each Corner
A vet stops his car in the street because a dog he knows has become unrecognisable. Mrs Pumphrey explains that she has been building him up with malt, cod-liver oil, Horlicks, cream cakes and chocolates. Warnings are giv…
- The narrator, Mr Herriot, is a veterinary surgeon; he tells the story himself, so 'I' throughout is the vet. He pulls up his car when he see…
- Tricki has become hugely fat, 'like 'a bloated sausage' on four short legs'; his eyes are bloodshot and rheumy and stare straight ahead, and…
- Mrs Pumphrey explains that the dog was listless and seemed to have no energy, so — thinking he was suffering from malnutrition — she has bee…
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2
The Cure: No Medicine at All
At the surgery Tricki is ignored by a pack of household dogs, given two days of water and nothing else, and then let out to be rolled over and inspected. He learns to fight for his share at feeding time, hunts rats at ni…
- At the surgery the resident dogs came crowding round the vet. Tricki looked at the noisy pack through dull eyes and, set down on the carpet,…
- Herriot bedded him in a warm loose box beside the one the other dogs used, watched him for two days, and gave him water and nothing to eat.
- At the end of the second day Tricki began to take some notice of what was around him, and on the third he was whining whenever the dogs soun…
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3
The Collection, and the Joke in the Title
Thirty feet of gleaming black metal draws up outside the surgery. In the garden a mass of dogs is hurtling round the lawn, and in the middle of them is a lithe, hard-muscled little golden animal. Tricki sails out of Herr…
- Within minutes of the telephone call, some thirty feet of polished black car pulled up at the surgery door. The chauffeur let her out, and H…
- Herriot told her he was fine and that there was no need for her to get out of the car; he would go and fetch him.
- Out on the lawn a crowd of dogs was tearing round and round, and in the thick of them, ears up and tail going, was the small golden shape of…
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Who is the 'I' of this story?
Beginner
A Mrs Pumphrey, the owner of the dog
B Tristan, who works at the surgery
C Mr Herriot, a veterinary surgeon, who tells the story himself
D Hodgkin, Mrs Pumphrey's gardener
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Mr Herriot, a veterinary surgeon, who tells the story himself
The whole story is told in the first person by the vet.
Why did the narrator pull up his car?
Intermediate
A Mrs Pumphrey had waved to him from the pavement
B He had been called to an emergency at the house
C He saw Tricki in the street and was shocked at his appearance
D He wanted to speak to Hodgkin about the garden
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He saw Tricki in the street and was shocked at his appearance
Everything in the first section grows out of that accidental sighting.
How is Tricki described at the start of the story?
Beginner
A Thin and weak, with his ribs showing
B So fat that the vet compares him to a swollen sausage standing on four short legs
C Lively and fast, running ahead of his mistress
D Small and neat, in a new tweed coat
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So fat that the vet compares him to a swollen sausage standing on four short legs
His eyes were bloodshot and rheumy and his tongue lolled from his jaws.
What does 'rheumy' mean, as used of Tricki's eyes?
Intermediate
A Unusually bright and alert
B Half closed with sleep
C Having a watery discharge
D Clouded over with age
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Having a watery discharge
The glossary gives it as a watery discharge from a mucous membrane, especially of nose or eyes.
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