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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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ller of the terrible Nag! Where is Nagaina, for the third time ? On the rubbish-heap by the stables, mourn-ing for Nag. Great is Rikki-tikki with thewhite teeth. Bother my white teeth! Have you everheard where she keeps her eggs ? In the melon-bed, on the end nearest thewall, where the sun strikes nearly all day. Shehad them there weeks ago. And you never thought it worth while to tellme ? The end nearest the wall, you said ? Rikki-tikki, you are not going to eat heresrsfs r Not eat exactly ; no. Darzee, if you have agrain of sense you will fly off to the stables andpretend that your wing is broken, and let Nag-aina chase you away to this bush ? I must getto the melon-bed, and if I went there now she dsee me. Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow whocould never hold more than one idea at a time inhis head; and just because he knew that Nag-ainas children were born in eggs like his own,he did nt think at first that it was fair to killthem. But his wife was a sensible bird, and she
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RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI 203 knew that cobras eggs meant young cobraslater on ; so she flew off from the nest, and leftDarzee to keep the babies warm, and continuehis song about the death of Nag. Darzee wasvery like a man in some ways. She fluttered in front of Nagaina by the rub-bish-heap, and cried out, Oh, my wing is broken!The boy in the house threw a stone at me andbroke it. Then she fluttered more desperatelythan ever. Nagaina lifted up her head and hissed, Youwarned Rikki-tikki when I would have killedhim. Indeed and truly, you ve chosen a badplace to be lame in. And she moved towardDarzees wife, slipping along over the dust. The boy broke it with a stone! shriekedDarzees wife. Well! It may be some consolation to youwhen you re dead to know that I shall settleaccounts with the boy. My husband lies on therubbish-heap this morning, but before night theboy in the house will lie very still. What isthe use of running away? I am sure to catchyou. Little fool, look at me ! Darzees wife knew b

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