Extract of Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
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Mrs. Packletide, the main character of the story, once travelled in an airplane with Loona Bimberton, who talked of nothing else but the self-procured tiger skin. Mrs, Packletide got jealous and decided at that moment to kill a tiger and gift a tiger-claw brooch to Loona on her next birthday. For this, she even offered one thousand rupees to the villagers to arrange the shooting of a tiger, without much risk or exertion. The villagers were excited at the prospect of one thousand rupees and were ready to help her. The great night arrived when the killing was to be done. Mrs. Packletide, alongwith a paid companion, Miss Mebbin, crouched on a platform constructed specially for this on a tree. A goat was fastened as a bait for the tiger and everyone started waiting for the tiger. They had to wait for sometime and then they heard the footsteps of the tiger. Mrs. Packletide shot using her rifle and the tiger was dead. Everyone rejoiced over the killing, when they came down from the tree. Miss Mebbin drew Mrs. Packletide’s attention towards the bullet wound on the goat and not the tiger. Actually, the bullet from the rifle hit the goat which died instantly whereas the tiger being an old one, just succumbed to heart-failure at the mere sound of a bullet. Anyhow, Mrs. Packletide was everywhere on the pages of the weekly and she sent the tiger-claw brooch to Loona Bimberton also. As for Miss Mebbin, she never forgot about the bullet-injury on the goat for which Mrs. Packletide had to do something so that she didn’t give her away. She had to buy a weekertd cottage near Darking in which Louisa Mebbin lived happily.
"Mrs. Packletide had already arranged in her mind the lunch she would give at her house in curzon street."
(a)in whose honour did Mrs packletide wish to host the lunch at her house what prompt her to plan this move ?
ans. Mrs packletide wish to to host a lunch in a Hona of loona bimberton her jealousy and her desire to boost of a big achievement that loona bimberton spawned her to wish this move.
(b) what treat of MRS packletide selected as the idea of hosting the lunch bring out?
ans. it brings out her jealousy and sons Of rivalry.
(c) what do you understand by the expression arranged in her mind?
ans. the phrase arranged in her mind means that Mrs packletide had mentally world out the details of the lens that she was planning to host.