Question

Summary of "Mrs. packletide's Tiger"

Answer 1

This is Interesting story by the Writer Saki. In this story Mrs Packletide is a person from British. Her wish was to shoot a tiger , her paid companion wasMrs mebbin. she was more concerned about money. Loona Bimberton was a woman who killed the tigers and got name among people. Packletide dislikes Loona Bimberton. She is doing this for making Loona Bimberton feel jealous. Packletide had a plan that after shooting she will conduct party and invite Loona Bimberton. Packletide also gave money to villagers for helping her in shooting tiger. She wanted to shoot an old tiger so that there will be, not much risk and over exertion. They tied a goat to attract the tiger and when it will come near to the goat, she can shoot him. At last when they were playing cards sitting on the roof made on tree by villagers and suddenly when tiger comes, Mrs Mebbin shout and says, ”Shoot the tiger, Shoot the tiger ” than Mrs Packletide shoot and the tiger died but there were no bullet marks on the tiger. The bullet mark was on the goat. She incorrectly shoots and goat dies. Tiger died because of the sound of riffle as the tiger has a heart attack, though she shot a goat, villagers appreciated her by beating the drums because of money was given to them. She conducts party and invited Loona Bimberton but she didn’t attend the party because she was jealous of Mrs Packletide as she got so much fame and appreciation.

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.