The Maharaja’s anxiety had reached a fever pitch. The hundredth tiger was yet to be killed. The dewan could lose his job if he couldn’t search the tiger. He had brought a tiger from the People’s Park in Madras and kept it hidden in his house. He dragged I the tiger to the forest where the Maharaja was hunting. Maharaja shot the tiger. The Maharaja was happy to think that his vow to kill hundred tigers had bean fulfilled. I After the Maharaja left, the dewan went near the tiger and found that the tiger was not dead. Then he spotted a wooden tiger in a toy shop and gave it as a gift to the Maharaja’s son. One day, while playing with his son, one sliver of the wooden tiger pierced the Maharaja’s right hand which later developed into a fatal would and the Maharaja died.
