There
are many amusing lines in the story. Here are a few of them. Rewrite
each one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained. One has
been done for you as an example:
(a)
It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot
a tiger.
Mrs.
Packletide wanted to shoot a tiger
(b) Mrs. Packletide had already arranged in
her mind the lunch she would give at her house in Curzon Street,
ostensibly in Loona Bimberton's honour, with a tiger-skin rug
occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation.
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(c) Mothers carrying their babies home
through the jungle after the day's work in the fields hushed their
singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable
herd-robber.
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(d) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective
elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of
nationality or denomination
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(e) Evidently the wrong animal had been
hit, and the beast of prey had succumbed to heart-failure, caused by
the sudden report of the rifle, accelerated by senile decay
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(f) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at
an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift
of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions
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There are many amusing lines in the story. Here are a few of them. Rewrite each one in ordinary prose so that the meaning is retained. One has been done for you as an example:
(a) It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger.
Mrs. Packletide wanted to shoot a tiger
(b) Mrs. Packletide had already arranged in her mind the lunch she would give at her house in Curzon Street, ostensibly in Loona Bimberton's honour, with a tiger-skin rug occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation.
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(c) Mothers carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day's work in the fields hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable herd-robber.
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(d) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination
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(e) Evidently the wrong animal had been hit, and the beast of prey had succumbed to heart-failure, caused by the sudden report of the rifle, accelerated by senile decay
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(f) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions
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(b) Mrs. Packletide had already imagined
the lunch party she would have, supposedly in honour of Loona
Bimberton, where she would display the tiger-skin rug and talk about
the tiger hunt.
(c) Women with babies walked quietly
through the jungle so as to not disturb the sleep of the old lion,
else he might wander off to new hunting grounds.
(d) Louisa Mebbin was very particular about
money, irrespective of nationality or denomination.
(e) It was clear that the wrong animal had
been shot. The lion had died of heart-failure caused by the gun shot
and hastened by old age.
(f) Loona Bimberton did not read the
illustrated newspaper for weeks and her letter of thanks for the gift
of a tiger-claw brooch was written in the form which could hide her
true feelings.
(b) Mrs. Packletide had already imagined the lunch party she would have, supposedly in honour of Loona Bimberton, where she would display the tiger-skin rug and talk about the tiger hunt.
(c) Women with babies walked quietly through the jungle so as to not disturb the sleep of the old lion, else he might wander off to new hunting grounds.
(d) Louisa Mebbin was very particular about money, irrespective of nationality or denomination.
(e) It was clear that the wrong animal had been shot. The lion had died of heart-failure caused by the gun shot and hastened by old age.
(f) Loona Bimberton did not read the illustrated newspaper for weeks and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was written in the form which could hide her true feelings.
