A tiger in the house summary
The Tiger in the House is the story of the famous writer Ruskin Bond. Also, the narrator himself is Ruskin Bond. The story is about Timothy, a tiger cub. One day, while the writer's grandfather was going down the forest path with his party, he found a tiger cub. He decided to bring the cub home. It was named by Timothy by his grandmother and brought on bottle-milk. As Timothy grew, he was also fed raw mutton, cod liver oil, pigeons and rabbits.
When Timothy was a cub, he was friends with Toto, the monkey, and a puppy. Timothy was initially afraid of the puppy but later, he became friends with the puppy and allowed him to rest on his back. The writer became Timothy's favorite when he came to live with his grandparents. He will be around the writer and pretend to cut his ankles.
Timothy used to sleep in Cook's quarters. When he turned six months old, he became less friendly. He ate small animals, sometimes pulled his chain hard, and even pounced on everyone. However, he had clean habits and rubbed his face like a cat with his claws.
As he grew, he became dangerous and thus Dada decided to take him to the zoo of Lucknow. He carried Timothy into the first class compartment. After six months Dada visited Timothy at the zoo. He patted the tiger's forehead, pricked his ears and rubbed his mouth. The tiger began to lick his hands, but drifted away when a leopard in the neighboring cage pounced on him. Seeing this, Dada decides to meet the Superintendent and requests to move Timothy to another cage. But, he was inauspicious and could not meet her.
He gets frustrated to go to the tiger cage and bid him goodbye. Once again he patted the tiger's back. A keeper recognizes the grandfather and tells him that Timothy has died of pneumonia. He also told her that this tiger was trapped last month and is very dangerous. Dada's hand was still in the cage and the tiger was licking him. He somehow removed his hand from the cage. He gave the keeper a derogatory look and bid the tiger a 'goodnight'.
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