English II Gulmohar II Class 7 II Chapter-2 II A secret for two II Video-1

ABOUT AUTHOR: Quentin Reynolds (1902–1965) published twenty-five books apart from his autobiography. He seems to have been affected by the huge loss of lives suffered during World War II. In his autobiography, he described the war as being “Short on glamour and long on tragedy.” SUMMARY : Montreal is a very large city of Canada, and it has some very wide and big streets like Prince Edward Street. No one knew this street as well as did Pierre Dupin. Pierre had delivered milk to the families on this street for thirty years. He was one of the many milk-wagon drivers that worked for a milk company. During the past fifteen years the horse which drew the milk-wagon used by Pierre was a large, white horse named Joseph. When the big, white horse first came to the milk company, he didn't have a name. They told Pierre that he could use the white horse. Pierre stroked the horse's neck and looked into his eyes. "This is a nice horse, a kind and gentle one," said Pierre, "I'll name him after Saint Joseph, who was also very kind and gentle." The horse was well trained within a year and Joseph was able to identify the milk route that his master used to boast that was not in reed of reins and never touched them. Each morning, Pierre would arrive at the stable at five o’ clock and the wagon would be loaded and Joseph hitched to it. Pierre was very enthusiastic to ride with Joseph. The other drivers would laugh at Pierre to go on every morning. Their splendid combination would stalk proudly down the street.