ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The showman agreed to keep the engine on the Gymkhana grounds till the end of their season. The man met the municipal authorities and the secretary of the club to sell it out but no one showed any interest. The municipality ordered him to remove it from the ground otherwise they would charge him rent.

Detailed explanation-2: -So the municipality pressed the narrator to take the road engine away from the Gymkhana Grounds. So the narrator became desperate. He had planned to take the road engine to a field which his friend owned.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator planned to move the engine through an elephant. The narrator had won an engine at the fair and to hold his engine at the Gymkhana Grounds, the writer was forced to pay rent. Eventually, the fairgrounds’ administrators insist that the narrator turn off his engine right away.

Detailed explanation-4: -He offered me the services of his temple elephant. I also engaged fifty coolies to push the engine from behind.

Detailed explanation-5: -the agreed to keep the engine at the Gymkhana grounds till the end of this season and then I would have to make my own arrangements to take it out. when I asked the showman is he could find me a driver, he just smiled; the fellow who brought it here had to be paid hundred rupees for the job and 5 rupees a day.