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How does the writer create humour in this story?
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Solution
The story is full of humour. Mrs. Packletide arranges for the shooting. The funniest part is that a weak tiger is arranged and cheaper goats are left to lure him. Mrs Packletide is not a good shooter, but a platform is constructed in a tree, and she sits there with a rifle, a thumb-nail pack of patience cards. The funniest part is as soon as the tiger caught sight of the goat it lay flat on the earth, seemingly less from a desire to take advantage of and attack its prey.
The rifle is shot with a loud bang and the great beast springs to one side and then rolls over dead. Miss Mebbin makes fun of Mrs. Packletide by bringing out the fact that the wrong animal had been killed. The bullet had hit the goat, but the tiger had a heart failure because of the loud noise of the rifle. The villagers shouted happily, for they were only anxious for their thousand rupees and gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the tiger. Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras happily and her pictured fame reached the pages of Texas Weekly Snapshot.
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