1. The protagonist’s name is __________________________. He is also the narrator of the story.
2. He earns his living as a _________________________. 3. The narrator describes himself as a person who likes travelling regularly to work. In other words, he is a contented _____________________. 4. Every day he used to travel by ______________________ in order to go to work. 5. _______________________ was the day his routine was disturbed. 6. There was a stranger on the platform and he used to carry a ______________________ instead of an umbrella. He also used to smoke a ______________________. 7. While the narrator read _________________, the stranger read the ____________________. 8. The appearance of the stranger brought back old school memories. The stranger was in fact _______________________, a school prefect. 9. His nickname was __________________________. 10. He was called that way because he used to come ____________ forward to ________ the boys. 11. The narrator became his personal _____________ while attending the public school. 12. The narrator suffered enormously at the hands of the stranger. So deep was his pain that he even considered _________________________. 13. One of the worst punishments he had to endure was _______________________________. 14. Nearly fifty years have passed since those school days and the narrator decides to take some _______________________. 15. He intends to embarrass the stranger and expose his acts but he was the one who became embarrassed when the stranger denied being _____________________. KEY 1. William Perkins 2. solicitor 3. commuter 4. train 5. Tuesday 6. cane; pipe 7. The Times; Daily Mail 8. Bruce Foxley 9. Galloping Foxley 10. galloping; hit 11. slave 12. committing suicide 13. the caning 14. revenge 15. Bruce Foxley