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

Do you think the tiger shooting organized by the villagers was a serious affair?


Give reasons for your answer.

The tiger shooting organized by the villagers was a petty issue after all as the villagers were already carrying the knowledge about the weakness and frailty of the tiger. In order to reduce the risk of tiger shooting, they had intentionally got a tiger that was old and senile so that it wouldn’t create much violence. The villagers had even got their children to keep the tiger in the outskirts of the village where it wouldn’t get much to eat and would sulk in its performance thereby making it an easy catch for Mrs. Packeltide to shoot it down. However, the children had left some goats near the tiger so that it might feed on them and not die of starvation.


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