Question

Summary of mrs packletide's tiger.

Answer 1

This story tells us about a woman's pleasure and intention to shoot a tiger. This short masterpiece is written by a very renowned author -- Saki. The story was written at a time when there was a very little awareness about the need to protect the tigers. The story deals with an important character named Mrs. Packeltide whose motive was to kill a tiger for her pleasure. This wasn't due to her lust to kill but it was created due to her close friend, Mrs. Loona Bimberton. Mrs. Loona Bimberton is another character in the story who has recently shot a tiger and the name and fame she has got due to it had a major impact on Mrs. Packeltide which made her think of shooting a tiger. 
2. As the circumstances seemed favorable, she stared her journey to accomplish her motive. Mrs. Packeltide has offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity to shoot a tiger without any risk. The neighbouring village gets to know about the news and accepts the challenge as it had a large number of tigers in it. The precious amount of a thousand rupees had spread all over the village and the villagers which included women and children cloud be seen working of the challenge of grabbing this amount. As it happens, a very elderly tiger, who is no longer able to chase down it prey for supper, has taken to preying on the village's domesticated animals, and the villagers would like to get rid of him as much as Mrs. Packletide would like to bag him. 
3. The day had arrived. It was moonlit and cloudless. The villagers had constructed a platform in a leafy tree for Mrs. Packletide, and tether a goat "with a particularly persistent bleat" underneath it was kept as a prey for the tiger. To accomplish this task more safely, Mrs. Packeltide had appointed a paid companion, Miss. Mebbin. Now, Mrs. Packletide, accompanied by her paid companion Louisa, waits through the night for the tiger to appear. At last the tiger is seen making his way into the clearing. Instead of attacking the terrified goat, however, the tiger lies down. "I believe it's ill," Louisa says, but the tiger rises again and heads for the goat. Mrs. Packletide fires, and the tiger falls. 
4. In a moment, all the natives could be seen excited to see the seen as the tiger was dead. This glad news was carried to the whole village and the thumping of tom-toms could be heard to suit the scene. 
5. But, the story takes a change when Miss. Mebbin finds out that the goat was shot and had a wound while no trace of a bullet or a wound could be found on the tiger. It was later found out that the wrong animal had been hit accidently. The tiger had died due to a heart attack as it was very old and could not bear the sudden bullet shot out of the rifle. Mrs. Packeltide was annoyed at this discovery but at the same time she was convinced that she had shot a tiger and accomplished her motive. The villagers will not give away Mrs. Packletide's secret for the thousand rupees. Mrs. Packletide assumes she can trust Louisa for the same reason. 
6. The news then spreads as Mrs. Packeltide's as her picture frame reaches from the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the Novoe Vermaya. But Louisa, who seems to felt herself underpaid and underappreciated for some time, informs Mrs. Packletide that she'll require a little extra funding to insure that the story doesn't happen to leak out. Specifically, what Louisa needs is the money to buy a small cottage near Darking. People are very surprised when Louisa, a paid companion, suddenly becomes a homeowner; but they are even more surprised when Mrs. Packletide gives up her newfound hobby, big-game hunting. "The initial expenses are so heavy," she tells those who ask the reason for why she gave up big-game shooting. This is how the story ends."

Answer 2

Mrs. Packletide, the main character of the story, is jealous of Loona Bimberton, who talked of nothing else but  her recent travel in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator. Mrs. Packletide became 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, along with a paid companion, Miss Mebbin, crouched on a platform constructed specially for  this purpose on a tree.

A goat was fastened as 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 fired a 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 had 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 newspapers and she sent the tigerclaw  brooch to Loona Bimberton also. As for Miss Mebbin, she never forgot about the bullet-injury on the goat due to  which Mrs. Packletide had to do something so that she didn’t give her away. She had to buy a weekend cottage for  her near Darking in which Louisa Mebbin lived happily.