Page 9 - LN2-EXPLANATION

Adventures; exploit or event
Philosophy: ideology, beliefs
Meadows: field, pasture
Resumed: restart
Cornered: forced into a place or situation

Para-14 Explanation
Bill knew nothing about colleges and cities may be because he never got the
chance to visit these places. But he knew everything about the villages and
small towns as he had done different types of jobs at these places. He got his
ideology of simplicity and cheerful nature as a gift by exploiting these places.
He tried to build faith in the narrator that they would surely catch Lutkins. Both
of them left the beautiful fields and restarted their search mission. At last, Bill
forced one of Lutkin’s friends to admit that Lutkin had ran away to his mother’s
house which was three miles away from New Mullion. So, both of them
prepared to drive to Lutkin’s mother in order to find him.

Para-15
"I know Oliver's mother. She's a terror," Bill sighed. "I took a trunk out there for
her once, and she almost took my skin off because I didn't treat it like a box of
eggs. She's about nine feet tall and four feet thick and quick as a cat, and she
sure can talk. I'll bet Oliver heard that somebody's chasing him, and he's gone
on there to hide behind his mother's skirts. Well, we'll try her. But you'd better
let me do it, boy. You may be great at literature and law, but you haven’t had
real training in swearing."

Para-15 Explanation
Bill told him that he knew Oliver’s mother because once he took the delivery of
a trunk for her. She treated him very badly as she was angry for not taking
proper care of her trunk. He described her physical appearance that she was nine
feet tall, four feet thick and compared her quickness to that of a cat. He added
that the Lutkins must have come to know that they were searching for him that
is why he had run to his mother’s place in order to hide himself. He also
suggested that the narrator should let him deal with the mother as he doubted
that the clerk would not be able to extract the truth from the lady's mouth.

Para-16
We drove into a poor farmyard; we were faced by an enormous and cheerful old
woman. My guide bravely went up to her and said, "Remember me? I'm Bill
Magnuson, the carter and hackman. I want to find your son, Oliver."
"I don't know anything about Oliver, and I don't want to," she shouted.

Enormous: huge