It is not for nothing , child , that the village bears my name , and ` he who watches long , ' as the saying is , ` shall at last have his reward . ' '' '' I have watched long -- very long -- nearly all my life , and my reward has been bites and blows , '' said the Jackal . `` Ho ! ho ! ho ! '' roared the Adjutant . `` In August was the Jackal born ; The Rains fell in September ; ` Now such a fearful flood as this , ' Says he , ' I ca n't remember ! ' '' There is one very unpleasant peculiarity about the Adjutant . At uncertain times he suffers from acute attacks of the fidgets or cramp in his legs , and though he is more virtuous to behold than any of the cranes , who are all immensely respectable , he flies off into wild , cripple-stilt war-dances , half opening his wings and bobbing his bald head up and down ; while for reasons best known to himself he is very careful to time his worst attacks with his nastiest remarks . At the last word of his song he came to attention again , ten times adjutaunter than before . The Jackal winced , though he was full three seasons old , but you can not resent an insult from a person with a beak a yard long , and the power of driving it like a javelin . The Adjutant was a most notorious coward , but the Jackal was worse . `` We must live before we can learn , '' said the Mugger , `` and there is this to say : Little jackals are very common , child , but such a mugger as I am is not common . For all that , I am not proud , since pride is destruction ; but take notice , it is Fate , and against his Fate no one who swims or walks or runs should say anything at all . I am well contented with Fate . With good luck , a keen eye , and the custom of considering whether a creek or a backwater has an outlet to it ere you ascend , much may be done . '' `` Once I heard that even the Protector of the Poor made a mistake , '' said the Jackal viciously . `` True ; but there my Fate helped me . It was before I had come to my full growth -- before the last famine but three -LRB- by the Right and Left of Gunga , how full used the streams to be in those days ! -RRB- .
Yes , I was young and unthinking , and when the XXXXX came , who so pleased as I ?
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