The story is about a relationship between a pet and grandfather. Grandfather found a tiger cub on his hunting expedition and named it as Timothy. Timothy was provided with two companions, monkey and puppy. As Timothy goes on growing his attitude also went on changing. He became less friendly, stole away to stalk a cat and also there were feathers lying all over the veranda. Grandmother warned about Timothy’s behaviour that one day it may eat up the cook By all these charges in Timothy’s behaviour grandfather decided to transfer Timothy to a zoo.
After 6 months grandfather visited the zoo. Grandfather went straight upto the cage where Timothy was and kept stroking and slapping it for five minutes. As it was becoming dark it was time to say ‘good bye’. The keeper of the zoo recognised grandfather and keeper said that it was not their tiger.
Timothy had died of pneumonia. This tiger was caught two months ago which was dangerous. Suddenly grand father was shocked by this, took back his hand and went away quickly saying ‘Good bye’ to Tiger. At the end he says ‘good bye Timothy’ because he still thinks the Tiger as his Timothy without trusting the words of the keeper.
