Um... I don't think my mom said why when she told the story to me. But maybe that's true--people and tigers probably wouldn't have gotten along.

[The cat in the other story wasn't so nice, but Ray can sympathize a bit with the tiger in this story, living on the outskirts and trying to just do their own thing.]

Whatever the reason, the woman became very upset and demanded that the tiger be brought to court for killing her son. She was old and had depended on her son to take care of her--she had no one else. So a man caught the tiger and brought it before the judge, who offered to allow it to live if it would take the place of the woman's son.