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D. Change the dialogue into indirect speech.
Without waiting for breakfast, Rikki-tikki ran to
When morning came he was very stiff, but the thornbush where Darzee was singing a song of
well pleased with his doings.
triumph at the top of his voice. The news of Nag’s
death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had
thrown the body on the rubbish heap.
Now I have
Nagaina to settle
with, and she will
be worse than five Nag is dead—is
Nags, and there's no dead—is dead! The
knowing when the valiant Rikki-tikki caught
eggs she spoke of him by the head and held
will hatch. Goodness! fast. The big man brought the
I must go and see bang-stick, and Nag fell in
Darzee. two pieces! He will never
eat my babies again.
All that’s
true enough.
But where's
Nagaina?
Rikki-tikki, you
are not going to
On the rubbish eat her eggs?
heap by the
stables, mourning
for Nag.
Have you ever
heard where she
keeps her eggs?
In the melon bed,
Not eat exactly;
on the end nearest no. Darzee, if you have
to the wall, where a grain of sense you will fly off
the sun strikes to the stables and pretend that your
nearly all day. She wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase
hid them there you away to this bush. I must get to the
weeks ago. melon-bed, and if I went there now
she'd see me.
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