NCERT Book Class 7 English (The Alien Hand) Chapter 6 A Tiger in the House

Grandfather finds a tiny tiger-cub in the forest and brings
him home.
Grandmother calls him Timothy and brings him up like a
human child.
Timothy is playful and naughty. His companions are Toto, the
monkey, a puppy and other members of the household.

TIMOTHY, the tiger-cub, was discovered by Grandfather in
the Terai jungle near Dehra.
One day, when Grandfather was strolling down the forest
path at some distance from the rest of the party, he
discovered a little tiger about eighteen inches long, hiding
among the intricate roots of a banyan tree. Grandfather
picked him up, and brought him home. He had the
distinction of being the only member of the party to have
bagged any game, dead or alive.
At first the tiger-cub, who was named Timothy by
Grandmother, was brought up entirely on milk given to
him in a feeding-bottle by our cook, Mahmoud. But the
milk proved too rich for him, and he was put on a diet of
raw mutton and cod-liver oil, to be followed later by a more
tempting diet of pigeons and rabbits.
Timothy was provided with two companions —Toto, the
monkey, who was bold enough to pull the young tiger by the