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  A chap takes the trouble to study form and saves up his pocket money to have a bet on a good thing and then he goes and gets let down like this . It may be funny to you, but I call it rotten. And another thing I call rotten is you having kept it from me all this time that you were, 'Young Porky', pa. (i) Who is speaking to whom? (ii) 'It may be funny to you, but I call it rotten'. What does this statement imply? (iii) What is the irony here?

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                  (i) Harold is speaking to his father. (ii) The statement implies that Harold studied hard and saved his pocket money to bet on boxers but he got let down because Bill was not fighting the bout now. (iii) Here the irony is that he was fond of boxing celebrities and the fact that he himself was the son of a celebrity was kept secret from him.