All the cobras are dead . And if they were n't , I 'm here . '' Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself . But he did not grow too proud , and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it , with tooth and jump and spring and bite , till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls . Darzee 's Chant -LRB- Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi -RRB- Singer and tailor am I -- Doubled the joys that I know -- Proud of my lilt to the sky , Proud of the house that I sew -- Over and under , so weave I my music -- so weave I the house that I sew . Sing to your fledglings again , Mother , oh lift up your head ! Evil that plagued us is slain , Death in the garden lies dead . Terror that hid in the roses is impotent -- flung on the dung-hill and dead ! Who has delivered us , who ? Tell me his nest and his name . Rikki , the valiant , the true , Tikki , with eyeballs of flame , Rikk-tikki-tikki , the ivory-fanged , the hunter with eyeballs of flame ! Give him the Thanks of the Birds , Bowing with tail feathers spread ! Praise him with nightingale words -- Nay , I will praise him instead . Hear ! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki , with eyeballs of red ! -LRB- Here Rikki-tikki interrupted , and the rest of the song is lost . -RRB- Toomai of the Elephants I will remember what I was , I am sick of rope and chain -- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs . I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane : I will go out to my own kind , and the wood-folk in their lairs . 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 . I will revisit my lost loves , and playmates masterless !
Kala Nag , which means Black Snake , had served the Indian Government XXXXX every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years , and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught , that makes him nearly seventy -- a ripe age for an elephant .
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