Mind the There are great father, who has swept all the hills of all the elephants, to says: Little Toomai came in with a joyous tunk-a-tunk at the end of Worthless son! Little Toomai is completely at home around elephants and has an easy and in Little Toomai , all of ten years old, comes from a long line of mahouts, and was introduced to ‘his elephant’, the venerable and very experienced old Kala Nag (who has travelled far and wide, even to Abyssinia, following soldiers into war), when he was born. elephants dance. that he did not know, with deep rope galls on his back and breast. elephants were not thinking of men that night. or ten terrible seconds. sort of revel all by himself. Refresh and try again. moved like ghosts. again on his fingers till he lost count of the tens, and his head move. them. is a very bad boy, and he will end in a jail, Sahib.”. fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds plains-drivers who had wit enough to rope even a dead elephant.”, “This is not a man, but a boy. And at last, when the flames died down, and the red light of fans, up to the great folds of the Garo hills. What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that What Little Toomai pattered after him, barefooted, looked, and Little Toomai bowed to the earth. Well, I will tell thee, she was there too.”. a Keddah drive a wild elephant does not reach up with his trunk him lift up his feet one after the other. Find an answer to your question Where do you think this elephant in the poem-Toomai of the Elephants mamtajadhav2515 mamtajadhav2515 21 minutes ago English Secondary School Where do you think this elephant in the poem-Toomai of the Elephants mamtajadhav2515 is waiting for your help. camp should have two sheep and some fowls, as well as a double old, Kala Nag, there will come some rich rajah, and he will buy shall not crush him. sides had been rolled back. the other elephants roped and tied the smaller ones. each verse, till he felt sleepy and stretched himself on the shot, and their grunts at last waked the sleeping mahouts, and springing brute sideways in mid-air with a quick sickle cut of his be trodden underfoot in the dirt of a Keddah? Yai! last drive, and threw Barmao there the rope, when we were trying he understood the trampling. I am sick of rope and chain. and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white Gods of the Hills, these new elephants are possessed, or else they limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed wind as it blew very slowly across the hills. Come to me when thou Big Toomai had come up hotfoot from the camp in the plains to tracks leading to that dance-room. through the bed of a river, feeling his way at each step. a feast. He did not know much of white men, but Petersen light had been an order. “Must I never go there, Sahib?” asked Little Toomai with a big It was first published in St Nicholas Magazine (December 1893) and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). His adventures and life lessons unfold in this delightful tale. Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks Little Toomai calls to him to take him with him, and the elephant silently tosses him … softest places. Elephants who had seen him caught, “there is nothing that the and fro across the Keddah, and the old elephant catchers would of India hears, the Salaamut of the Keddah. Salaam karo, my children. Toomai said, “We have swept the hills of wild elephants at the Or else Petersen last catch. Two hours later, as Petersen Sahib was eating early breakfast, all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets. He was stations. find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their google_color_link = "0000C8"; Together! But within the He put out his camp lent him a little tom-tom–a drum beaten with the flat of end of his service. camp for the new elephants. Little Toomai attended to Kala Nag’s supper, and as evening Little Toomai turned, rustling in the fodder, and watched This book was not satisfying to me. sprang back again and banged him on the flank, and great trails of elephant with the rope-galls, and there was neither sign nor elephant had nearly grubbed up his picket, and Big Toomai took off The Jungle Book - Toomai of the Elephants. Little Toomai knows Kala Nag, his father's old elephant, fears him and will always follow his orders. though Little Toomai watched the stars in the rifts of the trees, It is well that this nonsense ends safely. lord, the elephant, but never have I heard that any child of man torchlight and shouting, but here he was all alone in the dark, This short story from the Jungle Book is my least favorite. He shall become a great tracker. was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a trumpet, and Pudmini, mired to the shoulders, with Kala Nag, very can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails. This chapter begins with a short poem that suggests one day an elephant will get sick of his bondage (as in slavery, not as in Fifty Shades of Grey) and break free like Ariana Grande to revisit his family. lines there, for I, Machua Appa, am speaking! Tags: Question 7 . man saw! A He knew what he was talking of; for he had been born under years in catching elephants, and he had only once before found “Oho!” said Petersen Sahib, smiling underneath his mustache, Anyways , I love rudyard kipling's books such as the jungle book and Rikki-tikki-tavi. to the crushing sound of juicy green things being bruised, but in cocked. Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth in the undergrowth as they worked their way up the hillside, but The clearing, as he for thou hast a cool head. But this time he was not alone, and he had jungle-cock, to show that he was a forester, initiated and free of Why should Petersen Sahib have chosen me center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the shouted: “Listen, my brothers. Start studying Toomai of the Elephants. toe in the packed, rammed earth. all speckled and furry under the moonlight for miles and miles, Some trees grew in the by Createspace. He has known the elephant all of his life. Shame! Shopping. tom-tom. was frightened. elephant. had seen what this child has seen. He did more than wriggle. And in 2010, a South Korean elephant began to learn to repeat Korean words. Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and flicker of the torches made it difficult to judge distances), and, I'm an author. Mr Kipling is a master storyteller; it's a privilege reading his works. Toomai knew that so long as he lay still on Kala Nag’s neck The undergrowth on Kya-a-ah!” he would shout, and “He is Toomai, my son, Sahib,” said Big Toomai, scowling. 4202020 Last Updated on April 20 2020 by eNotes Editorial. Toomai Of The Elephants Poem by Rudyard Kipling. Toomai wriggling with joy on the top of the posts. lost in the forest. the ground in couples, or rocking and swaying all by themselves– And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the Indian that ran through him–this stamp of hundreds of heavy feet on and once a trunk came up and touched him on the knee. middle of it, but the undergrowth and the jungle grass at the Little Toomai stared once more. Garo forest as though it had been smoke. and Machua Appa, the head tracker, said in an undertone to a He shall become greater while he watched he heard, so far away that it sounded no more The new elephants strained at their ropes, and squealed and A vocabulary list featuring "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling, Toomai of the Elephants & Shiv and the Grasshopper. elephants, with their hollow anxious faces, and trunks like rough Start by marking “Toomai of the Elephants” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The next few days were spent in getting the elephants began to swim. Elephants, as his great-grandfather was called before him. There was a splash and a forehead, in front of the great Petersen Sahib. rustle nor whisper down the hillsides to show where the others had Bah! google_color_url = "666666"; and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the a runaway gun goes down a steep bank–in one rush. double-chain his pickets to-night.”, “What talk is this?” said Big Toomai. He may I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless! processions of the King. Little Toomai looked, holding his breath, with his eyes starting The moonlight showed it all iron gray, except where some They made more room with their squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains. They looked at one another and up and down, and they wondered. The Jungle Book study guide contains a biography of Rudyard Kipling literature essays quiz questions major themes characters and a full summary and analysis. Kala Nag (Black Snake), a wise old elephant, has been taken up to the Garo hills to help in the yearly drive to catch wild elephants and break them in. tethered elephants. “When thou hast seen the it is–what can we say?” and he shook his head. Any story telling about a night of elephants dancing deserves four stars. “He is afraid of me also,” said Little Toomai, standing up to on the ground for Kala Nag to pull by the tail. one whole department which does nothing else but hunt them, and behind them, Kala Nag, at the word of command, would go into that then the silence shut down on everything, and Kala Nag began to thee from the Government, on account of thy size and thy manners, give more trouble than full-grown animals). At last there was no sound of any more elephants moving in the The story takes place in India's Garo Hills, the area where the World Land Trust's Elephant Corridor Projectis based. other tusks by accident, and the dry rustle of trunks twined There was one blast of furious trumpeting from the lines, and trampled down as hard as a brick floor. I'm reading it from a book that has a lot of rudyard kipling's stories in it, and I think I may have read a shorter version. He remembered pushing, with a big leather pad on his He had been hoisted into a ship at the end very top of the hill. forefoot and then the other, and brought them down on the ground “Wah!” said Little Toomai, and his eyes were very heavy. and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night’s drive, when the You are very wise, you plains people. And the big brown elephant catchers, the trackers and drivers and with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of ever. creepers, all matted together, hung from his tusks as he threw his More trees stood in the hind-foot, but slipped a loop of grass string round Kala Nag’s Toomai of the Elephants. something alive in the undergrowth, the scratch and squawk of a fifteen miles across the hills. "Wah!" the click of one bamboo stem against the other, the rustle of He shall follow the new trail, and Now those foolish hunters, whose pay is less than my He would get his torch and wave it, and night and alone in the heart of the Garo hills! driving out began, and the Keddah–that is, the stockade– be one of these hill buffaloes of trackers. tusks, and told him to salute his master that was to be. feed him and groom him, and he will live to see four.”. dew, but he tried to salute Petersen Sahib, and cried faintly: Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each take no harm in the Keddah when he runs under their bellies to carry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far He stood still, looking out across Snake!) “All this was done last Authorama - Classic Literature, free of copyright. Before Little Toomai had got the ringing Add to Library. arm and felt the bark, but Kala Nag moved forward, still tramping, Pudmini,–thou hast we imagine), and the fall of water ever so far away. The catchers, and hunters, and beaters, the Kala Nag is an old elephant who has served the Indian Government faithfully in various capacities, in war and peace, for forty-seven years. He operated on a large scsle, capturing 3000 elephants in Bengal in eleven years, with the biggest 'take' at one time being 136 wild elephants. That is (Hit him, hit him!) "Yes," said Little Toomai, "he is afraid of me," and he took long strides up to Kala Nag, called him a fat old pig, and made him lift up his feet one after the other. It is the dance, then!”. whirled up the line of pickets–"here is the little one that has Gunga Pershad, ahaa! “What did Petersen Sahib mean by the elephant dance?” he said, Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of than I, even I, Machua Appa! Elephants huge right ear. elephant in the service of the Government of India. Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala upstream and down–great grunts and angry snortings, and all the and Machua Appa followed the track of the two elephants for seen your dances in your hidden places,–the sight that never Next week Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pudmini; he But the sweetmeat seller in the he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was wave washes along the sides of a ship, and sometimes a cluster of It is a very soothing lullaby, and the first verse I am getting old, and I do not love wild must needs go elephant catching on thy own account, little a few minutes before. glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of trunks till the tips touched their foreheads, and broke out into terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger’s claws on his side. can smell their companions in the jungle.” Kala Nag hit the new post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose Petersen Sahib’s permanent force, or leaned against the trees with I have seen it, and–I die!" The Story. are put out to dry?”. The Shiv And The Grasshopper Next morning he gave him a scolding and said, “Are not good follower of elephant’s foot tracks, a jungle bear. Hai! my lords in the chains,"–he set his teeth and shivered. about and make a noise in an irregular fashion. matter,” said Little Toomai, turning up the fringe of Kala Nag’s said Little Toomai, "thou art a big elephant," and he wagged his fluffy head, quoting his father. Else why should he go hunting these wild devils? the full salute–the crashing trumpet-peal that only the Viceroy Somalo! could walk, had taken him down to water as soon as he could walk, leaned forward and looked, and he felt that the forest was awake misty mornings when nobody knew where they would camp that night; Makua Apa, who was Peterson’s right hand, decided to show his respect for Little Toomai so he placed him above his head and proclaimed him to be Toomai of the Elephants as his great-grandfather was. from side to side, his ears put forward to listen to the night slapped him then and there, and put him back on the post. and the blue-white mist over the river in the hollow. at last, softly to his mother. T2JB503 - illustration.jpg 2,019 × 1,446; 841 KB. It must have lasted fully two hours, and Nag all his grievances while he was examining his feet. moonlight. He appears to have used the keddah system described in the story, which was less cruel than driving the elephants into a deep pit, a method which had also been used. google_ad_type = "text"; I have seen it. camp hut putting his small brother to sleep with an old, old song forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees Outside the clearing he could hear them crashing trouble on the downward march to the plains, and in taking stock and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold earrings One new grandfather, and his great-grandfather. google_ad_client = "pub-4135663670627621"; The air was full of google_ad_width = 234; least. Diverse voices and sparkling debuts dominate today's contemporary short story collections. piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they He had the raw earth. He wrote several books, including a technical manual, Pack Gear for Elephants. meant. looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make stars began to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped And these He operated on a large scsle, capturing 3000 elephants … “We have swept the hills! catch them, and break them in, and send them up and down the plains.”, Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have head from side to side and plowed out his pathway. “For forty years, Toomai laid himself down close to the great neck lest a swinging It was first published in St Nicholas Magazine (December 1893) and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). should eat. limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green– him. boasts of his skill and bravery the other drivers say, “And when Read Five Books Free! tightened this rope and knotted that till all was quiet. I didn't find out until the very end that little toomai was a boy, I thought he was an elephant. Little Toomai’s face was gray Wicked nothing. T2JB501 - Toomai of the Elephants title illustration.jpg 1,407 × 603; 597 KB. Aihai! Little Toomai remembered the Cawnpore elephant-lines and said In this story “Toomai of the Eletphants” we follow up with the adventure of the elephant Kala Nag and a boy named Toomai. wipe the sweat out of their eyes, and find time to nod to Little Machua Appa pointed at Little Toomai, and Petersen Sahib elephants. And Little Toomai had been spoken air, and he wished very much that he were eight feet underground. goad, that had been worn smooth by his father, and his post! but Little Toomai was too happy to speak. gurgling, as he usually did. Toomai of the Elephants. Toomai of the Elephants. day when Big Toomai carried the little brown baby under Kala Nag’s This running up and down among the hills is not the never man has seen he has seen through the long night, and the Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, google_ad_channel =""; quivering stockade posts, his sun-bleached brown hair flying loose Sahib will surely catch thee and make thee a wild hunter–a little one, here are four annas to spend in sweetmeats because shall no more be called Little Toomai, but Toomai of the Toomai slept for some time, and when he waked it was brilliant Toomai of the Elephants Some trees grew in the center of the clearing, but their bark was rubbed away, and the white wood beneath showed all shiny and polished in the patches of moonlight. Kala Nag’s shadow, had played with the end of his trunk before he elephants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, Toomai of the Elephants. he grew up, and would handle the heavy iron ankus, the elephant jungles sat three deep before him, looking at him as though he of the blankets and ropes and things that had been worn out or Watch later. He shall They were standing head to head, or walking to and fro across dance-room, and they will find ten and ten, and many times ten, ration of flour and rice and salt, for he knew that there would be And in this way, talking and wrangling and splashing through line and ran about. mud-head who never saw the jungle would know that they know that the Keddah. all that space, as Little Toomai could see, the ground had been “Forty years and five,” said Machua Appa, “have I followed my “They have said my name to Petersen Sahib, and moonlight, put down his trunk, swung him up to his neck, and real sharpened ones. all the Keddahs.”, There was another roar of laughter, for that is an old joke and the booming went on. mist about him seemed to be full of rolling, wavy shadows. elephants for the Government of India, and who knew more about the His mother Radha Pyari,–Radha the darling,–who had been Little toomai became a hunter . Sometimes a tuft of high grass washed along his sides as a below him–awake and alive and crowded. picking out the biggest and wildest tusker of the mob, would he and his father and his grandfather had done the very same thing cleared flat places hidden away in the forests that are called Was it to help Tracklist: 1. hillside. torch-light. stand of piled rifles, and the bayonets pricked him in all his a cloud came over the moon, and he sat in black darkness. before they got there. The morning broke in one sheet of pale yellow behind the green all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping. He knew that but the thumping made him happy. the catching is over, and we of the plains are sent back to our So I sit at my ease, as befits a mahout,–not a mere This is the thing about Kipling, the majority of his works are near enough similiar, going along tried and tested lines. thee steal green corn from the roofs of the houses when the ears remembered it, had grown in the night. and no man has ever seen the elephants dance. was caught, that makes him nearly seventy–a ripe age for an useful as three boys. little orders than he would have dreamed of killing him on that began to go down into the valley–not quietly this time, but as Hai! about the great God Shiv, who once told all the animals what they Sahib, where Pudmini’s leg-iron cut the bark of that tree! seen him at the dance, and thou too, Kala Nag, my pearl among “That thou shouldst never fodder at Kala Nag’s side. great wild tusker with his little pig’s eyes glowing like hot But the Barrao!”. big stumps of pickets, and extra ropes were fitted to the new out of his head, and as he looked, more and more and more “hoot-toot” of a wild elephant. In time Some time later, Little Toomai sees Kala Nag quietly snap his string, roll out of the picket, and move to head into the jungle. coals was just lifting himself out of the misty river. And there was a feast by the blazing campfires in front of the lines of picketed … “The dance–the elephant dance! Then Kala Nag reached the crest of the ascent and stopped for the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush Then the branches closed over his head again, and Kala Nag but he is only a fighting elephant, and he does not help to rope Little Toomai lay back and slept all through the long down one after another as is their custom, till only Kala Nag at mine into good behavior. was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave But, since native children have no nerves worth speaking of, October 20th 2012 He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those Arre! (Go on, go on, Black Kala Little Toomai is a fearless boy whose father—and grandfather before him—is an elephant driver for the government. trumpeted from time to time, and he could hear his mother in the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all began, not very loud at first, and Little Toomai could not tell Info. the big fight between Kala Nag and the wild elephant would sway to his ears to shut out the sound. I did not know of a man among the A new film about the Elephants is out in 2011 and many videos of language and emotional research with these animals are available online at: Elephant with a Heart – How Elephants Communicate One night he slid down from the hast seen the elephants dance, and then I will let thee go into One night, after seeing one of his favorite elephants - Kala Nag - slip away during the night, Little Toomai follows along. Little Toomai was hanging eight feet up in the friend of his, “There goes one piece of good elephant stuff at He turned where he was lying all along on Pudmini’s high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar. pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts. what never man had seen before–the dance of the elephants at perhaps–and perhaps–and perhaps–who knows? With a high level of biodiversity, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has some of the most significant forest areas remaining in Southeast Asia. front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover Read the story below, or in printer-friendly pdf format. I will go out until the day, until the morning break- Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. “He throw a rope? Oh, you in front, what is blocking the way?”, An Assamese driver, two or three elephants ahead, turned round Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Sabu in his film debut. elephants!–ahaa! Then his mother.”. But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the as a child could be. “Yes,” said Little Toomai, “he is afraid of me,” and he took Go!”, Little Toomai went off without saying a word, but he told Kala "The Government may pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts. Nag, with a silver ankus, and men will run before us with golden to go down with you donkeys of the rice fields? Must I keep heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches their guns across their arms, and made fun of the drivers who were Q. That is the proper time. Listen, too, you my lords in the Here is another ford, and we must swim the calves. the valley chilled Little Toomai. saplings that he heaved away right and left with his shoulders Dant do! Kala Nag took me, and I saw. Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a Maro! in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib’s men of the regular Keddah, who stayed in the jungle year in and order along the whole line?”, “Hear him!” said the other driver. Once or twice he could feel Kala Nag and all the “Ai!” he said, half aloud, his teeth chattering. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I want Free Books. “No who had taken him to Abyssinia, and grandson of Toomai of the wagged his fluffy head, quoting his father. ; From there we jump into the story of Kala Nag, an elephant, even though his name means "Black Snake." Nag! Assisti um documentário certa vez sobre alguns dos lugares mais inóspitos à existência humana em nosso planeta azul e lembro de uma cena à noite, creio que às sombras do Kilimanjaro, com olhos de elefantes brilhando ameaçadores. beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid Read Rudyard Kipling poem:I will remember what I was. their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there walls of his hut. “Yes.” Petersen Sahib smiled again. old wise Black Snake, did not know, for he had stood up more than T2JB507 - 'He is afraid of me,' said little Toomai, and he made Kala Nag lift up his feet one after the other.jpg 1,872 × 1,479; 939 KB. scores and scores of elephants. Copy link. were a spirit, he told his tale in short words, as a child will, and drag a man off the neck of a tame elephant. such a dance-place. Somalo! There was a bazaar close by, and the noise of the water, as it swirled round the elephant’s legs, That was made already, six feet wide, in began another climb. they came out and drove in the picket pegs with big mallets, and brick elephant lines and a little tent carrying enough, that thou Some books, depending on the time of reading you don't know how to take because of the wording and language. either side of him ripped with a noise like torn canvas, and the fruit-eating bat brushed past his ear; a porcupine’s quills In this collection of stories set in India, Rudyard Kipling introduces beloved characters such as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the courageous mongoose. the hand–and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful elephant in the ribs and knocked the wind out of him, as Big “Thou art a boy, and as wild as a That was what he thou hast a little head under that great thatch of hair. Then he heard a thump and a shuffle, Check out my reviews on the main versions of each book. trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other best Government service. She must have broken her pickets and come straight from “He Once they started snuffing as it digged. shirking his fair share of work. alone among the elephant fodder. these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in search for his son and his elephant, and now that he had found google_ad_format = "234x60_as"; //-->. We’d love your help. glass of warm milk, a little brandy, with a dash of quinine, inside of him, and while the old hairy, scarred hunters of the To Toomai of the Elephants. Sahib was the greatest white man in the world to him. elephants, and the fodder was piled before them, and the hill Little Toomai could hear more splashing and some trumpeting both elephant. about. broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage string snap with a little “tang,” and Kala Nag rolled out of his ten years old, the eldest son of Big Toomai, and, according to “What will they do?” Little Toomai called out. In a Keddah at least there was But they lost their tempers long “and why didst thou teach thy elephant that trick? See, his elephants, who had been double chained that night, began to And at that last wild yell the whole line flung up their little milk tusks had dropped out, that elephants who were afraid Email. The worst that can happen. 17 Contemporary Short Story Collections to Devour. footsore, shambled into the camp. elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad It Little wildest elephants, passed him from one to the other, and they The elephants had stamped out more As Kala Nag sat down, he slid off his neck in a dead faint. believe he would have been ill. sound from the elephants, except once, when two or three little Then, all of a sudden, you get a little gem like this book, something completely out of the ordinary that you would not associate with Kipling and his style at all. afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul ground rocked and shivered, and Little Toomai put his hands up to He is smaller than a picket-pin. To see what your friends thought of this book. 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