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...PAUL B. ECKLAND Ste. Foy, Que. > Both cobra and mongoose survived. Had the snake charmer allowed the fight to go to the finish, Rikki-tikki-tavi, as any Kipling fan knows, would...
Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on fair terms with Chua, a regular rat. But except in Kipling's enchanted garden, rats are the mongoose's standard prey, and are responsible for most of its progress around the world...
...Beaconsfield, where he plays halfback on the second Rugby team, keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki. In his first picture, Sabu memorized the sound of English words, spoke them without understanding. Now, having packed a lifetime's schooling into two years, he not only speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...