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781
"
Wicked
,
wicked
Darzee
!
"
said
Nag
,
lashing
up
as
high
as
he
could
reach
toward
the
nest
in
the
thorn-bush
.
But
Darzee
had
built
it
out
of
reach
of
snakes
,
and
it
only
swayed
to
and
fro
.
782
Rikki-tikki
felt
his
eyes
growing
red
and
hot
(
when
a
mongoose
's
eyes
grow
red
,
he
is
angry
)
,
and
he
sat
back
on
his
tail
and
hind
legs
like
a
little
kangaroo
,
and
looked
all
round
him
,
and
chattered
with
rage
.
But
Nag
and
Nagaina
had
disappeared
into
the
grass
.
When
a
snake
misses
its
stroke
,
it
never
says
anything
or
gives
any
sign
of
what
it
means
to
do
next
.
Rikki-tikki
did
not
care
to
follow
them
,
for
he
did
not
feel
sure
that
he
could
manage
two
snakes
at
once
.
So
he
trotted
off
to
the
gravel
path
near
the
house
,
and
sat
down
to
think
.
It
was
a
serious
matter
for
him
.
783
If
you
read
the
old
books
of
natural
history
,
you
will
find
they
say
that
when
the
mongoose
fights
the
snake
and
happens
to
get
bitten
,
he
runs
off
and
eats
some
herb
that
cures
him
.
That
is
not
true
.
The
victory
is
only
a
matter
of
quickness
of
eye
and
quickness
of
foot
--
snake
's
blow
against
mongoose
's
jump
--
and
as
no
eye
can
follow
the
motion
of
a
snake
's
head
when
it
strikes
,
this
makes
things
much
more
wonderful
than
any
magic
herb
.
Rikki-tikki
knew
he
was
a
young
mongoose
,
and
it
made
him
all
the
more
pleased
to
think
that
he
had
managed
to
escape
a
blow
from
behind
.
It
gave
him
confidence
in
himself
,
and
when
Teddy
came
running
down
the
path
,
Rikki-tikki
was
ready
to
be
petted
.
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But
just
as
Teddy
was
stooping
,
something
wriggled
a
little
in
the
dust
,
and
a
tiny
voice
said
:
"
Be
careful
.
I
am
Death
!
"
It
was
Karait
,
the
dusty
brown
snakeling
that
lies
for
choice
on
the
dusty
earth
;
and
his
bite
is
as
dangerous
as
the
cobra
's
.
But
he
is
so
small
that
nobody
thinks
of
him
,
and
so
he
does
the
more
harm
to
people
.
785
Rikki-tikki
's
eyes
grew
red
again
,
and
he
danced
up
to
Karait
with
the
peculiar
rocking
,
swaying
motion
that
he
had
inherited
from
his
family
.
It
looks
very
funny
,
but
it
is
so
perfectly
balanced
a
gait
that
you
can
fly
off
from
it
at
any
angle
you
please
,
and
in
dealing
with
snakes
this
is
an
advantage
.
786
If
Rikki-tikki
had
only
known
,
he
was
doing
a
much
more
dangerous
thing
than
fighting
Nag
,
for
Karait
is
so
small
,
and
can
turn
so
quickly
,
that
unless
Rikki
bit
him
close
to
the
back
of
the
head
,
he
would
get
the
return
stroke
in
his
eye
or
his
lip
.
But
Rikki
did
not
know
.
His
eyes
were
all
red
,
and
he
rocked
back
and
forth
,
looking
for
a
good
place
to
hold
.
Karait
struck
out
.
Rikki
jumped
sideways
and
tried
to
run
in
,
but
the
wicked
little
dusty
gray
head
lashed
within
a
fraction
of
his
shoulder
,
and
he
had
to
jump
over
the
body
,
and
the
head
followed
his
heels
close
.
787
Teddy
shouted
to
the
house
:
"
Oh
,
look
here
!
Our
mongoose
is
killing
a
snake
.
"
And
Rikki-tikki
heard
a
scream
from
Teddy
's
mother
.
His
father
ran
out
with
a
stick
,
but
by
the
time
he
came
up
,
Karait
had
lunged
out
once
too
far
,
and
Rikki-tikki
had
sprung
,
jumped
on
the
snake
's
back
,
dropped
his
head
far
between
his
forelegs
,
bitten
as
high
up
the
back
as
he
could
get
hold
,
and
rolled
away
.
That
bite
paralyzed
Karait
,
and
Rikki-tikki
was
just
going
to
eat
him
up
from
the
tail
,
after
the
custom
of
his
family
at
dinner
,
when
he
remembered
that
a
full
meal
makes
a
slow
mongoose
,
and
if
he
wanted
all
his
strength
and
quickness
ready
,
he
must
keep
himself
thin
.
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He
went
away
for
a
dust
bath
under
the
castor-oil
bushes
,
while
Teddy
's
father
beat
the
dead
Karait
.
"
What
is
the
use
of
that
?
"
thought
Rikki-tikki
.
789
"
I
have
settled
it
all
;
"
and
then
Teddy
's
mother
picked
him
up
from
the
dust
and
hugged
him
,
crying
that
he
had
saved
Teddy
from
death
,
and
Teddy
's
father
said
that
he
was
a
providence
,
and
Teddy
looked
on
with
big
scared
eyes
.
Rikki-tikki
was
rather
amused
at
all
the
fuss
,
which
,
of
course
,
he
did
not
understand
.
Teddy
's
mother
might
just
as
well
have
petted
Teddy
for
playing
in
the
dust
.
Rikki
was
thoroughly
enjoying
himself
.
790
That
night
at
dinner
,
walking
to
and
fro
among
the
wine-glasses
on
the
table
,
he
might
have
stuffed
himself
three
times
over
with
nice
things
.
But
he
remembered
Nag
and
Nagaina
,
and
though
it
was
very
pleasant
to
be
patted
and
petted
by
Teddy
's
mother
,
and
to
sit
on
Teddy
's
shoulder
,
his
eyes
would
get
red
from
time
to
time
,
and
he
would
go
off
into
his
long
war
cry
of
"
Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk
!
"