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'Evidently, the wrong animal had been hit and the beast of prey had succumbed to heart-failure....’ (a) What did Mrs. Packletide want to kill ?(b) Why did she want to kill it ?(c) How did the two animals die ?(d) How did Miss Louisa Mebbin take advantage of this situation ? |
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Answer» (a) Mrs. Packletide wished to shoot a tiger and get her pictures published. (b) This was in order to prove herself superior to Loona Bimberton who had recently obtained a tiger-skin and couldn’t stop boasting about it. (c) The goat had died of the gunshot. The tiger had merely died of a heart failure caused by the sound of the gun shot. (d) Louisa Mebbin blackmailed Mrs. Packletide into buying her the weekend cottage or else she would tell Loona Bimberton that it was not the tiger but a mere goat that Mrs. Packletide had shot. |
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