Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
None of that, my friend! I’m too old a bird to be caught with chaff. You would ask your sister for the keys, would you? A likely story! You would rouse the house too. Eh? Ha! A good joke truly. Come, where is the food. I want no keys. I have a wolf inside me tearing at my entrails, tearing me; quick, tell me where the food is.
(а) What does the convict mean when he says I’m too old a bird to be caught with chaff?
(b) Why does the convict say, ‘I have a wolf inside me’?
(c) Why does the convict think it is ‘a good joke’.
(а) The convict wants to say that he is too experienced to be duped in by cheap tricks.
(b) The convict says so as he is very hungry and can tear anything apart like a hungry wolf.
(c) The convict thinks it to be a good joke that the Bishop will ask his sister to bring keys and she will go out to seek help.