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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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lingeyes. He heard the click of tusks as theycrossed other tusks by accident, and the dryrustle of trunks twined together, and the chafingof enormous sides and shoulders in the crowd,and the incessant flick and hissh of the greattails. Then a cloud came over the moon, and hesat in black darkness; but the quiet, steady hust-ling and pushing and gurgling went on just thesame. He knew that there were elephants allround Kala Nag, and that there was no chanceof backing him out of the assembly; so he set histeeth and shivered. In a Keddah at least therewas torch-lisfht and shouting, but here he was allalone in the dark, and once a trunk came upand touched him on the knee. Then an elephant trumpeted, and they all tookit up for five or ten terrible seconds. The dewfrom the trees above spattered down like rainon the unseen backs, and a dull booming noise6egan, not very loud at first, and Little Toomaicould not tell what it was; but it grew and grew,and Kala Nag lifted up one fore foot and then
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: LITTLE TOOMAI LOOKED DOWN UPON SCORES AND SCORESOF BROAD BACKS. TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS 253 the other, and brought them down on the ground—one-two, one-two, as steadily as trip-hammers.The elephants were stamping altogether now,and it sounded like a war-drum beaten at themouth of a cave. The dew fell from the trees tillthere was no more left to fall, and the boomingwent on, and the ground rocked and shivered, andLittle Toomai put his hands up to his ears to shutout the sound. But it was all one gigantic jarthat ran through him-—this stamp of hundredsof heavy feet on the raw earth. Once or twicehe could feel Kala Nag and all the others surgeforward a few strides, and the thumping wouldchange to the crushing sound of juicy greenthings being bruised, but in a minute or two theboom of feet on hard earth beg^an aeain. Atree was creaking and groaning somewhere nearhim. He put out his arm and felt the bark, butKala Nag moved forward, still tramping, and hecould not tell where he was in

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