The note taker refers to the way the flower girl speaks as “kerb-stone” English. What does he mean by this? that she speaks in slang and he can’t understand
that she speaks like someone who is from the streets
that she speaks with a foreign accent
that she speaks proper, refined English

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.

a. to introduce the audience to important characters .

b. to inform the audience where the story takes place .

e. to lay out specific details about different plot points.