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Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot 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.

I shouldn’t
follow them.
I wouldn’t be
able to manage
two snakes at
once.

After dinner, Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin.
But as soon as Teddy was asleep he went off for his nightly walk. Suddenly, he heard Nag and
Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.

But are you Everything. When
sure that there there were no people in
is anything to be the bungalow, did we have
gained by killing any mongoose in the garden?
the people? So long as the bungalow is
empty, we are king and queen
of the garden and remember
that as soon as our eggs in the
melon bed hatch (as they may
tomorrow), our children
will need room
and quiet.

When the house
is emptied of people, he
will have to go away, and
then the garden will be our I had not
own again. Go in quietly, thought of that. I will go,
and remember that the big but there is no need that we
man who killed Karait is the should hunt for Rikki-tikki
first one to bite. Then come afterward. I will kill the big
out and tell me, and we man and his wife, and the child if
will hunt for Rikki-tikki I can, and come away quietly.
together. Then the bungalow will
be empty, and Rikki-tikki
will go. 93