The Jungle Book

‘There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;

But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.