Question

summary of the story 'Mrs. Packletides tiger'

Answer 1

mrs packletide was courages ,hardworking ,clever woman .she wants to show down mrs loona bimberton . she wants to get famous like mrs loona bimberton ....soo that way she make plan to kill tiger and get famous soo she decided to kill old tigers all the villagers help mrs packletide to kill the tiger but the shoot missed and she kill the goat .whole world praises mrs packletide but mrs louis mebbin know the truthbehind the tiher death ......soo one day mrs loona bimberton came to mrs packletide and she backmailed mrs packletide that she tell whole world about the truth soo mrs loona bimberton placed an offer to mrs packletide that if she buy her a new weekend cottage .......at last mrs packletide faces huge loses and mrs loona bimberton grow tiger lilies in her new cottage

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.