It was Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger. Not that the lust to kill had suddenly descended on her, or that she felt that she would leave India safer and more wholesome than she had found it, with one fraction less of wild beast per million of inhabitants.
Humor - Horror - and the Supernatural by Saki
The short story: Mrs. Packletide's Tiger
This is how the story started and I'm like *eyes shut, take a deep breath, put the book down* "Nope." *Pick it back up, debate if I should finish the story, but instead post this quote here.*
The book was published in 1968, but today there are still people like Mrs. Packletide. Do they really think killing a wild animal leaves the place more wholesome? How does that make sense? Was wholesome used in a different way in the 60s? I thought tigers were sacred in India?
I read a little more and it turns out she wants to do this out of hatred and jealously of another woman and she wants to flaunt a tiger rug and give that woman a tiger claw broach for her birthday.
And I did finish this story and based on how it ends, this one is supposed to be humor. I don't get what is funny about a dead tiger.
