Question

It so happened that a neighbouring village could boast of being the favoured rendezvous of an animal of respectable antecedents. can u pls explain this sentence elaborately

Answer 1

Mrs. packletide offered villagers a 1000 rupees for killing a tiger easily. villagers said that they had a tiger regularly visiting them which was old and senile. due to old age and increasing infirmities he couldn't hunt his prey in jungle.
So he came to village for hunting small domestic animals to satisfy his hunger