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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."

Mrs. Packletide's Tiger is a humorous short story which focusses primarily on the lady character Mrs. Packletide's fascination and obsession to hunt. It is an amusing narrative which transports us to the era of the British Raj in India. This story was written at a time when campaigns regarding awareness about saving tigers hadn't begun.

The story begins with the character sketch of Mrs. Packletide who was swayed away by her dislike for Mrs. Loona Bimberton who recently got an Algerian Aviator and boasted about it. The only thing that could counter such kind of a success story was a personally procured tiger skin and a huge collection of photographs clicked by the press.

The story proceeds with favourable conditions to kill the tiger. It was so because the tiger had become very old and confined his territory of hunting in villages for domestic animals. 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.

Finally occurred a day when the villagers constructed a platform on a tree for Mrs. Packletide and tethered a goat to act as a prey for the tiger. For this task, she had appointed Miss Mebbin to accompany her so that the latter could be a witness to the entire incident. At last arrived the tiger which lied down instead of attacking the goat. Mrs. Packletide fires instantly and by mistake the goat is shot. The old tiger, being old and unable to bear the gun shot, dies of a heart attack.

This incident is the turning point in the story because Mrs. Packletide didn't achieve what she desired and it was just a matter of chance that the tiger died. She was annoyed at the discovery but never exposed the fact to anyone. Thus, she, in a very confident mood, convinced people that she had actually shot the tiger.

The incident gains its popularity with Mrs. Packeltide's pictures released by the press far and wide. In the meanwhile, we see Louissa Mebbin asking for some extra fund, partly because she felt underpaid and not appreciated appropriately and partly because she needed to buy a small cottage in Darking. She got the required amount of money because she was in possession of Mrs. Packeltide's secret of not killing the tiger. The most surprising change occurred at the end of the story where 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.hope it helps..thumbs up plzzz.experts..