An Assamese driver , two or three elephants ahead , turned round angrily , crying : `` Bring up Kala Nag , and knock this youngster of mine into good behavior . Why should Petersen Sahib have chosen me to go down with you donkeys of the rice fields ? Lay your beast alongside , Toomai , and let him prod with his tusks . By all the Gods of the Hills , these new elephants are possessed , or else they can smell their companions in the jungle . '' Kala Nag hit the new elephant in the ribs and knocked the wind out of him , as Big Toomai said , `` We have swept the hills of wild elephants at the last catch . It is only your carelessness in driving . Must I keep order along the whole line ? '' `` Hear him ! '' said the other driver . `` We have swept the hills ! Ho ! Ho ! You are very wise , you plains people . Anyone but a mud-head who never saw the jungle would know that they know that the drives are ended for the season . Therefore all the wild elephants to-night will -- but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle ? '' `` What will they do ? '' Little Toomai called out . `` Ohe , little one . Art thou there ? Well , I will tell thee , for thou hast a cool head .
They will dance , and it behooves thy father , who has swept all the hills XXXXX all the elephants , to double-chain his pickets to-night . ''
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