Cyril Boggis is an antique furniture dealer who stops at a farmhouse and tricks the owners into selling him an incredibly rare and valuable 18th century commode for cheap by claiming he only needs the legs. After negotiating a low price by lying about his intentions, the gullible farmers cut off the legs and destroy the commode, not realizing its true value. Boggis takes the legs and leaves, laughing at how easily he fooled the naive farmers.

2. LET’S SUMMARIZE
Cyril Boggis, a superb dealer in antique furniture, nine years ago, he was
rounding with his car in the country, when suddenly his car overheated and
had to walk to a farmhouse to ask for a jug of water. There, was a special
armchair that called his attention and, finally, after some bargained, he
gained it, cheaper than it was. Then, he discovered the wealthiness of the
countryside and decided coming every Sunday. Nine years later, he went to
another farmhouse where three men were chatting. He stopped them and,
subsequently, he could enter the house, where he found an incredible
reproduction of the eighteenth-century, however, to get it, he had to cheat a
little. He told them it was very poor and that he only needed the legs,
therefore, after negotiating a price with the men, when he took his course to
his car, they wanted to give him the commodity of having it already the way
he wanted. Hence, they cut the legs and severed the commode to be
firewood...

3. ● Cyril Boggis: the main character of the story. Boggis is a superb dealer
in antique furniture.He has his own shop and showroom in the King's
Road, Chelsea, where he had achieved a considerable reputation by
producing unusual items with astonishing regularity.
Therefore he is a talented salesman who knows what the client
wants. Obviously, he loves the work of the great eighteenth-century
English designers. But he's not a normal dealer because he cheats
people telling them that he's the President of the Society for the
Preservation of Rare Furniture. And when he dresses as a clergyman
to make the deals,. He was clever, smart, cunning, persuasive, wicked
or witty

4. ● Rumminis: an old and stumpy
man owner of a farm in
Buckinghamshire. He, and the
next two men, are very
suspicious and wary, and a little
bit stupid & dumb.
● Bert: is Rummins' son.
● Claud: He's a farmer who lives
near Rummins farm.
basic - low class -
farmers - dumb -
gullible: easily tricked -
naive - the opposite
to Boggis
➢ Tone: at the end it
is humorous -
unexpected ending

5. VOCABULARY Inlay: to decorate an object with
fine materials set in its surface:
Panel: a comparatively thin, flat
piece of wood
Astonishment: overpowering
wonder or surprise; amazement:
Dilapidated: to cause or allow (a
building, automobile, etc.) to fall
into a state of disrepair
Engrave: to chase (letters,
designs, etc.) on a hard surface, as
of metal, stone, or the end grain
of wood
Compile: to put together
something in one book or work

6. Scheme: a plan, design, or program
of action to be followed; project
Lucrative: profitable; moneymaking
Contemptuously: showing the
feeling with which a person regards
anything considered mean; value