Книга джунглей (1894) (14781830711)

Identifier: junglebookkipl (find matches)

Title: The jungle book

Year: 1894 (1890s)

Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Subjects: Animals

Publisher: New York : The Century Co.

Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ter? asked Rikki-tikki. We are very miserable, said Darzee. Oneof our babies fell out of the nest yesterday andNag ate him. Hm! said Rikki-tikki, that is very sad—but I am a stranger here. Who is Nag? Darzee and his wife only cowered down in thenest without answering, for from the thick grassat the foot of the bush there came a low hiss — ahorrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jumpback two clear feet. Then inch by inch out ofthe grass rose up the head and spread hood ofNag, the big black cobra, and he was five feetlong- from tonprie to tail. When he had liftedone-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayedbalancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion-tuftbalances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snakes eyes that neverchange their expression, whatever the snake maybe thinking of. Who is Nag? he said, /am Nag. Thegreat god Brahm put his mark upon all ourpeople when the first cobra spread his hood tokeep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, andbe afraid !

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RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVP* 185 He spread out his hood more than ever, andRikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the backof it that looks exactly like the eye part of ahook-and-eye fastening. He was afraid for theminute; but it is impossible for a mongoose tostay frightened for any length of time, and thoughRikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, hismother had fed him on dead ones, and he knewthat all a erown mongooses business in life wasto fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too, andat the bottom of his cold heart he was afraid. Well, said Rikki-tikki, and his tail beganto fluff up again, marks or no marks, do youthink it is right for you to eat fledglings outof a nest ? Nag was thinking to himself, and watching theleast little movement in the grass behind Rikki-tikki. He knew that mongooses in the gardenmeant death sooner or later for him and hisfamily; but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off hisguard. So he dropped his head a little, and putit on one side. Let us talk, he said. You eat e

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