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प्रश्न
What did the Keepers of the zoo reveal to the narrator’s grandfather?
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उत्तर
The tiger licked his grandfather’s hands. A crowd gathered there. A keeper asked grandfather what he was doing. The grandfather told that he had gifted the tiger to the zoo six months ago. The keeper told the grandfather that he had joined the zoo newly. However, he knew that the tiger was bad-tempered. The grandfather wandered about the zoo. He returned to the cage after a little while. Again he stroked and slapped Timothy to bid him goodbye. Another keeper recognized grandfather. He revealed that the tiger was not his Timothy. His Timothy had died two months ago.
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