Can Ricky Tiki Tavi protect his family from the deadly cobras of India?

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Today's story is from The Jungle Book, a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling,

first published in 1894. I hope you like it. And now,

Ricky Tiki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling. Sling. At the whole where he went in, red eye called to wrinkleskin.

Here what little red eye saith.

NAG.

Come up and dance with death.

Eye to eye, and head to head keep the measure, NAG.

This shall end when one is dead at thy pleasure nag.

Turn for turn and twist for twist, run and hide thee, nag!

The hooded death has missed.

Woe but tied thee, mag!

This is the story of the great war that Ricci-Ticky Tavi fought single-handed through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segoley Cantonment.

Darcy, the tailor bird, helped him, and Chuchundra the muskrat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor but always creeps round by the wall gave him advice

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