As soon as the pound notes were placed in his palm Jonathan simply closed it tight over them and buried fist and money
inside his trouser pocket. He had to be extra careful because he had seen a man a couple of days earlier collapse into near
madness in an instant before that oceanic crowd because no sooner had he got his twenty pounds than some heartless
ruffian picked it off him. Though it was not right that a man in such an extremity of agony should be blamed yet many in
the queues that day were able to remark quietly at the victim's carelessness, especially after he pulled out the innards of
his pocket and revealed a hole in it big enough to pass a thief's head. But of course he had insisted that the money had
been in the other pocket, pulling it out too to show its comparative wholeness. So one had to be careful.
What do you think motivates the "many in the queues" to blame the man for being robbed? Mention both implied and
explicit details and defend both using evidence from the story.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt