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THE HACK DRIVER- EXPLANATION

Para 1
After graduating with honours, I became a junior assistant clerk in a
magnificent law firm. I was sent, not to prepare legal briefs, but to serve
summons, like a cheap private detective. I had to go to dirty and shadowy
corners of the city to seek out my victims. Some of the larger and more self-
confident ones even beat me up. I hated this unpleasant work, and the side of
city life it revealed to me. I even considered fleeing to my hometown, where I
could have been a real lawyer right away, without going through this unpleasant
training period.

Magnificent: glorious, majestic
Legal briefs: A written legal document
Summons: court order
Detective: investigator
Shadowy: dark, dim
Unpleasant: horrible

Para-1 Explanation
The narrator gives his introduction that after completing his graduation with
honours, he got selected for a job of junior assistant clerk in a very famous law
firm. But instead of preparing legal papers like a lawyer, he had to deliver the
court orders to various people whom he had referred to as his victims. He said
so because in many of the cases he had to face very awkward situations where
he was beaten up by them.

They did so in order to avoid court orders as they had to then comply with them.
So, the narrator says that he hated his job. He hated it to the extent that he
sometimes thought of running away to his hometown where he could work as a
real lawyer and not as a mere clerk.
Para-2
So I rejoiced one day when they sent me out forty miles in the country, to a
town called New Mullion, to serve summons on a man called Oliver Lutkins.
We needed this man as a witness in a law case, and he had ignored all our
letters.