. The jungle book. he dung-hill and dead! Who hath delivered us, who ? Tell me his nest and his , the valiant, the true,Tikki, with eyeballs of , the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eye-balls of flame. RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI» 213 Give him the Thanks of the Birds,Bowing with tail-feathers spread !Praise him with nightingale words-Nay, I will praise him ! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailedRikki, with eyeballs of red ! {Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the songis lost,) TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS 1 will remember what I was, I am sick of ro
. The jungle book. he dung-hill and dead! Who hath delivered us, who ? Tell me his nest and his , the valiant, the true,Tikki, with eyeballs of , the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eye-balls of flame. RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI» 213 Give him the Thanks of the Birds,Bowing with tail-feathers spread !Praise him with nightingale words-Nay, I will praise him ! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailedRikki, with eyeballs of red ! {Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the songis lost,) TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS 1 will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain —I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane,I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs I will go out until the day, until the morning break, Out to the winds untainted kiss, the waters clean caress : I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!. TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS KALA NAG, which means Black Snake, hadserved the Indian Government in everyway that an elephant could serve it for forty -seven years, and as he was fully twenty years oldwhen he was caught, that makes him nearlyseventy—a ripe age for an elephant. He re-membered pushing, with a big leather pad on hisforehead, at a gun stuck in deep mud, and thatwas before the Afghan war of 1842, and he hadnot then come to his full strength. His mother,Radha Pyari,— Radha the darling,—who hadbeen caught in the same drive with Kala Nag,told him, before his little milk tusks had droppedout, that elephants who were afraid always got 218 THE JUNGLE BOOK hurt: and Kala Nag knew that that advice wasgood, for the first time that he saw a shell bursthe backed, screaming, into a stand of piled rifles,and the bayonets pricked him in all his softestplaces. So, before he was twenty-five, he gaveup being afraid, and so he was the best-loved andthe best-looked-after e
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