NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 1 - A Triumph of Surgery

The first chapter of NCERT Class 10th English Textbook Footprints Without Feet is A triumph of Surgery written by James Alfred Wight often known as James Herriot. The chapter is about Mrs. Pumphrey, her dog Tricky. It tells the story of how a veterinary doctor with a fake surgery made an obese dog normal. 

Mrs. Pumphrey, who is a rich woman always overfeeds her dog as she is very fond of it and cannot refuse when the dog asks for more food. Once when she took her dog for a walk a veterinary doctor was shocked to see a dog as obese as Tricky and suggested Mrs. Pumphrey to put him on a diet for the dog’s own wellbeing. However, as Mrs. Pumphrey couldn’t resist giving food to the dog when he asked for more, the dog’s condition worsened, and soon fell sick. 

Mrs. Pumphrey took the dog to the doctor and the doctor told Mrs. Pumphrey that her dog needed surgery and had to stay at the hospital for a few days. The dog stayed on the bed for the first three days and later on became slightly active as it had to move out of the bed or else stay hungry. Tricky had to fight with other dogs to get food and so he had to do more exercise and had much lesser food. 

Soon the dog recovered and was given back to Mrs. Pumphrey who believed that this was all the miracle of surgery. This humorous chapter emphasizes the over-caring and pampering of children by their parents and how fatal could it turn out to be. The NCERT Solutions Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet Chapter 1 A Triumph of Surgery PDF on Vedantu covers the solutions to all the exercises given in this chapter. 

NCERT Solutions as Per the Latest Syllabus of Class 10th English

The Class 10th English Syllabus is split into the following parts.

1. English Communicative 

2. English Language and Literature 

These Communicative and language and literature portions together account for about 80 marks in total. The rest 20 marks out of 100 are allotted to a viva which is conducted before the board examination. 

Footprints Without Feet is one of the NCERT textbooks prescribed by CBSE for Class 10 English. The book has a total of 10 chapters, which are as follows.

Chapter 1. A Triumph of Surgery

Chapter 2. The Thief’s Story

Chapter 3. The Midnight Visitor

Chapter 4. A Question of Trust

Chapter 5. Footprints without Feet

Chapter 6. The Making of a Scientist

Chapter 7. The Necklace

Chapter 8. The Hack Driver

Chapter 9. Bholi

Chapter 10. The Book That Saved the Earth

CBSE also prescribes First Flight, NCERT’s other book for Class 10 English. This textbook comprises a total of 11 chapters. A Letter to God, Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Two Stories about Flying, From the Diary of Anne Frank, The Hundred Dresses–I, The Hundred Dresses–II, Glimpses of India, Mijbil the Otter, Madam Rides the Bus, The Sermon at Benares and The Proposal are the chapters covered in the book. The First Flight is the main reader for Class 10 English and Footprints Without Feet is the supplementary reader. 

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