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) 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.
(b) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination.
(c) 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.
(d) 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.
(a) In order not to disturb the tiger, mothers tried to keep their babies quiet.
(b) Louisa Mebbin cared a lot for money irrespective of anything.
(c) Mrs. Packletide hit the wrong animal and the tiger died of heart failure because of the loud noise of the rifle.
(d) Loona Bimberton was jealous to see Mrs. Packletide with the dead tiger. She unwillingly wrote a letter of thanks to her for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch.