IMPLIED SITUATIONBy ten-forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished. The invaders had prepared for this campaign as carefully as they had for larger ones. On this Sunday morning the postman and the policeman had gone fishing in the boat of Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper. He had lent them his trim Saliuuat for the day. The postman and the policeman were several miles at sea when they saw the small, dark transport, loaded with soldier, go quietly past them. As officials of the town, this was definitely their business, and these two put about, but of course the battalion was in possession by the time they could make port. The policeman and the postman could not even get into their own offices in the Town Hall, and when they insisted on their rights they were taken prisoners of war and locked up in the town jail.

The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away, too, on this Sunday morning, for Mr Corell the popular storekeeper, had donated lunch, targets, cartridges, and prizes for a shooting competition to take place six miles back in the hills, in a lovely glade Mr. Corell owned. The local troops, big, loose-hunty boys, heard the planes and in the distance saw the parachutes, and they came back to town at double-quick step. When they arrived, the invader had flanked the road with machine-gun. The loose-hung soldiers, having very little experience in war and none at all in defeat, opened fire with their rifles. The machine-guns clattered for a moment and six of the soldiers became dead riddled bundles and three, half-dead riddles bundles, and three of the soldiers escaped into the hills with their rifles.

By ten-thirty the brass band of the invader was playing beautiful and sentimental music in the town square while the townsmen, their mouths a little open and their eyes & astronished,stood about listening to the music and staring at the grey-helmeted men who carried sub-machine guns in their arms.

By ten-thirty-eight the riddled six were buried, the parachutes were folded, and the battalion was billeted in Mr. Corell's warehouse by the pier, which had on its shelves blankets and cats for a battalion

By ten-forty-five old Mayor Orden had received the formal request that he grant an audience to Colonel Lanser of the invaders, an audience which was set for eleven sharp at the Mayor's five-room palace.

Questions

1. Quote the one sentence which neatly tells exactly what had happened by ten-forty-five.
2. What two officials of the town were at sea when the invading transport was sighted?
3. What were they doing?
4. Why might their presence in the town have been important when the invasion began?
5. Who had enaviea them to be away that morning?
6. What other defenders are mentioned?
7. Where were they at the time of invasion?
8. Who had been largely responsible for their absence? 9. Find at least three reasons for their being doomed to defeat even before they opened tire.
10. Consider the use of the word "bundles" in the context. Suggest two ways in which its use is appropriate.​