I followed , because I knew men would come out to drag it ashore . '' `` And did they do so ? '' said the Jackal , a little awe-stricken . This was hunting on a scale that impressed him . `` There and lower down they did . I went no farther , but that gave me three in one day -- well-fed manjis -LRB- boatmen -RRB- all , and , except in the case of the last -LRB- then I was careless -RRB- , never a cry to warn those on the bank . '' `` Ah , noble sport ! But what cleverness and great judgment it requires ! '' said the Jackal . `` Not cleverness , child , but only thought . A little thought in life is like salt upon rice , as the boatmen say , and I have thought deeply always . The Gavial , my cousin , the fish-eater , has told me how hard it is for him to follow his fish , and how one fish differs from the other , and how he must know them all , both together and apart . I say that is wisdom ; but , on the other hand , my cousin , the Gavial , lives among his people . MY people do not swim in companies , with their mouths out of the water , as Rewa does ; nor do they constantly rise to the surface of the water , and turn over on their sides , like Mohoo and little Chapta ; nor do they gather in shoals after flood , like Batchua and Chilwa . '' `` All are very good eating , '' said the Adjutant , clattering his beak . `` So my cousin says , and makes a great to-do over hunting them , but they do not climb the banks to escape his sharp nose . MY people are otherwise . Their life is on the land , in the houses , among the cattle . I must know what they do , and what they are about to do ; and adding the tail to the trunk , as the saying is , I make up the whole elephant . Is there a green branch and an iron ring hanging over a doorway ?
The old Mugger knows that a boy has been born in that house , and must some XXXXX come down to the Ghaut to play .
Adjutant Batchua Chilwa Gavial Jackal Rewa day fish-eater flood manjis