Question

The prospect of earning the thousand rupees had stimulated the sporting and commercial instinct of the villagers. The line suggests that money makes the man go. Elaborate.

Answer 1

It is true money makes man go. The moment the villagers came to know about the lucrative offer of a thousand rupees for helping Mrs Packletide in her tiger hunt, they were more than ready to seize the opportunity. Fortunately an old tiger had shifted its hunting grounds quite near the village because of old age and decrepitude. So in order to earn the money the villagers took the following precautions: a) children were posted night and day on the outskirts of the local jungle to head the tiger back in the unlikely event of his attempting to roam away to fresh hunting-grounds. b) cheaper kinds of goats were left about with elaborate carelessness to keep him satisfied with his present quarters. c) Mothers carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day's work in the fields hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable tiger.