 
 <prompt> **CHAPTER XX**

**A LESSON IN PICQUET**

Lord Dreever, while all dis dey happen, wey don leave waterside, light cigarette, and waka go tour the grounds. E dey vex with the world. Molly wey leave am for canoe with Jimmy no dey worry am: e get other wahala. Person never dey him best and happiest when person don dey force by wicked uncle to leave the girl wey person love and engage another wey person no send. Small bitterness dey person mind for such matter. Besides, Lord Dreever no be person wey dey think deep, but as e dey reason him situation as e dey waka, e come dey wonder if e no dey act like small pikin. E come reason say maybe e dey act like small pikin. Of course, Uncle Thomas fit make am very uncomfortable if e misbehave. Na im be the wahala. If only e get like--say, two thousand pounds every year wey e fit call him own--e for fit fight for am. But, abeg, Uncle Tom fit stop him supplies if wahala start, so tey e go dey live for Dreever house indefinitely, without even small money wey e fit call him own.

Imagination dey fear the future. For summer and autumn, when dem dey shoot, him lordship no mind to stay for him papa house. But for the whole year! Better make heart break for city than make am whole for village for winter.

**ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS:**
1. Lord Dreever
2. Yes
3. Him waka go tour the grounds
4. No
5. Uncle Tom fit stop supplies
6. If there dey trouble
7. No
8. Dreever house
9. No
10. In summer and autumn
11. Dreever house
12. No
13. No
14. Molly
15. Jimmy
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. No
19. For him outlook on life
20. Lord Dreever <response>: 1. Lord Dreever
2. Yes.
3. On a tour.
4. Yes.
5. Uncle Tom
6. if there was trouble
7. No.
8. Dreever
9. No.
10. autumn
11. home of his fathers
12. YEs.
13. winter
14. Molly
15. Jimmy
16. No.
17. Yes.
18. He did not think so.
19. one's outlook on life
20. the girl one loves 