Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 18
talking, tomake an end of him; and he heard her sav-age hiss as the stroke missed. He came downalmost across her back, and if he had been anold mongoose he would have known that thenwas the time to break her back with one bite;but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return-stroke of the cobra. He… … rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow. the thorn-bush; but Darzee had built it out ofreach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro.Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot(when a mongooses eyes grow red, he is angry),and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like alittle kangaroo, and looked…
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