Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 18
RIKKI-TIKKI LOOKED DOWN BETWEENTHE BOYS COLLAR AND NECK. 1893.] RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI. grass at the foot of the bush there came a slowhiss — a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet. Then inchby inch out of the grass rose up the head andspread hood of Nag, the big black cobra,… … he put his nose into the ink. When he had lifted one third of himself clearof the ground, he stayed balancing to and froexactly as a dandelion-tuft balances in thewind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with thewicked snakes eyes — that never change theirexpression, whatever the snake is thinking of.…
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