Who 'I' Is
The thief is telling you this himself.
↳ Because he admits the lies, we believe the rest.
📚 Chapter Learning Kit
The Thief's Story · 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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How He Got the Job
Five moves, three of them lies.
↳ The only true thing he says is that he wants the job.
Choosing the Victim
He picked Anil on purpose.
At the wrestling match Anil looked easy-going, kind and simple enough for what the boy had in mind.
↳ The friendship begins as a professional judgement.
Taking the Money
The theft goes perfectly.
↳ Nothing goes wrong. That is the point.
Two Faces in the Moonlight
One line, two whole lives.
Anil’s sleeping face is clear and unlined — the glossary gives ‘unlined’ as showing no sign of worry.
↳ At fifteen, the thief is the worn one.
Six Hundred in Fifties
Learn this figure.
↳ A fortune that lasts a fortnight.
📖 Smart notes
What you'll study, topic by topic
1
A Thief Picks a Victim, and Gets a Teacher
A fifteen-year-old thief sizes up an easy-going young man at a wrestling match, flatters him, gives a false name and talks his way into a job he cannot do. He is fed, housed on a balcony, taught to cook and taught to wri…
- The narrator tells his own story. He was fifteen when he met Anil, already an experienced thief and, by his own account, a fairly successful…
- He chose Anil at a wrestling match because the young man looked easy-going, kind and simple — an easy mark. Anil was about twenty-five, tall…
- He gave his name as Hari Singh, and admits at once that he lied: he took a new name every month, which kept him ahead of the police and of t…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Six Hundred Rupees and a Train He Did Not Catch
The theft goes perfectly: the notes come out from under the mattress without a sound and the boy runs. Then, with the Lucknow Express already moving and a carriage door within reach, he hesitates for a reason he cannot e…
- Anil was asleep, with a beam of moonlight lying across the bed. The boy sat on the floor and worked it out: with the money he could catch th…
- Creeping up to the bed, he noticed Anil's face — smooth and untroubled. His own, he says, carried more marks, and most of them were scars.
- His hand went under the mattress and drew the notes out silently. Anil sighed and turned towards him in his sleep; the boy was startled and…
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
A Wet Fifty-Rupee Note, and a Smile That Came by Itself
Returning the money turns out to be harder than taking it. In the morning Anil holds out a fifty-rupee note and says the boy will be paid regularly — and the note is still wet from the night's rain. Anil knows, says noth…
- The boy hurried back to the room feeling very nervous — and explains why in one line of his own: taking something, he says, is far simpler t…
- The moonlight was clouded now. Anil was still asleep. The boy crept to the head of the bed, felt Anil's breath on his hand, stayed still for…
- He woke late the next morning to find that Anil had already made the tea — a small reversal of their usual roles, and the first hint that so…
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
❓ Leveled MCQ practice
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Who is the narrator of 'The Thief's Story'?
Beginner
A The thief himself, telling his own story
B Anil, the young writer
C A policeman who investigated the case
D Ruskin Bond, speaking as himself
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The thief himself, telling his own story
He is fifteen years old, and the story never gives us his real name.
What is the narrator 'a fairly successful hand' at?
Beginner
A Cooking
B Wrestling
C Writing
D Stealing
Show answer & explanation
Stealing
He says he was already experienced at it although he was only fifteen.
Why did the boy choose Anil in particular?
Intermediate
A Anil was known to be carrying a great deal of money
B Anil looked easy-going, kind and simple enough for his purpose
C Anil had advertised for a servant in the local paper
D Anil was a stranger to the town
Show answer & explanation
Anil looked easy-going, kind and simple enough for his purpose
He had been doing badly lately and thought he could get into the young man's confidence.
How does the conversation begin?
Intermediate
A The boy flatters Anil by saying he looks like a wrestler
B The boy asks Anil the way to the sweet shop
C Anil speaks to the boy first and asks his name
D The boy pretends to have lost his money
Show answer & explanation
The boy flatters Anil by saying he looks like a wrestler
He explains the tactic to us at once: a little flattery helps in making friends.
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