Reading Comprehension.
“Thanks awfully. It’s jolly good of you. What a lucky thing for me that I should have chanced across one of the mater’s friends. It will be a lesson to me not to leave my exchequer lying about anywhere, when it ought to be in my pocket. I suppose the moral of the whole thing is don’t try and convert things to purposes for which they weren’t intended. Still, when a sovereign-purse has your crest on it-” “What is your crest, by the way?” Sletherby asked, carelessly.
“Not a very common one, ” said the youth; “a demi-lion holding a cross-crosslet in its paw.” “When your mother wrote to me, giving me a list of trains, she had, if I remember rightly, a greyhound *courant on her notepaper, ” observed Sletherby. There was a tinge of coldness in his voice.
“That is the Jago crest, ” responded the youth promptly; “the demi-lion is the Saltpen crest. We have the right to use both, but I always use the demi-lion, because, after all, we are really Saltpens.”
(a) Why did Bertie thank Mr. Sletherby?
(b) What was uncommon about the crest ertie described?
(c) How did Mr. Sletherby’s observation drive Bertie to defend the genuineness of his crest?
(d) How did Bertie happen to use a different crest?
