Mr Hull was the owner and editor of a small newspaper. He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.
One day, he recieved an exited telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just come through a big flood in a village up in the mountains. He described the flood in great detail, and Mr Hull wrote it all down and printed it in his paper that evening. He was delighted to see that no other paper had got hold of the story.
Unfortunately, however, angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked, so in the next day’s paper he wrote, . We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the village of Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood. Today, we are proud to say that we are again the first newspaper to bring our readers the news that yesterday’s story was quite false.’
Please answer these questions below.
1. What work did Mr Hull do ?
2. What was his aim in his job ?
3. What news did someone give him one day ?
4. How did the person give him the news ?
5. What did Mr Hodges do then ?
6. What gave him a lot of pleasure ?
7. How did he discover that he had been cheated ?
8. What correction did he print in his paper the next day ?