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Answer the following questions in your own words:

"The incidental expenses are so heavy," she confides to inquiring friends. Who is the speaker? What is she referring to here?

The given words have been spoken by Mrs. Packeltide. She used these words as an excuse for hunting.

Mrs. Packeltide seems to excuse herself from tiger hunting in order to avoid the large sum of secondary expenses. Though we know for sure that the matter is something else.


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Discuss the following question in detail and write the answers in your notebooks:

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