He went into the Keddah at the last drive , and threw Barmao there the rope , when we were trying to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from his mother . '' Machua Appa pointed at Little Toomai , and Petersen Sahib looked , and Little Toomai bowed to the earth . `` He throw a rope ? He is smaller than a picket-pin . Little one , what is thy name ? '' said Petersen Sahib . Little Toomai was too frightened to speak , but Kala Nag was behind him , and Toomai made a sign with his hand , and the elephant caught him up in his trunk and held him level with Pudmini 's forehead , in front of the great Petersen Sahib . Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands , for he was only a child , and except where elephants were concerned , he was just as bashful as a child could be . `` Oho ! '' said Petersen Sahib , smiling underneath his mustache , `` and why didst thou teach thy elephant that trick ? Was it to help thee steal green corn from the roofs of the houses when the ears are put out to dry ? '' `` Not green corn , Protector of the Poor , -- melons , '' said Little Toomai , and all the men sitting about broke into a roar of laughter . Most of them had taught their elephants that trick when they were boys . Little Toomai was hanging eight feet up in the air , and he wished very much that he were eight feet underground . `` He is Toomai , my son , Sahib , '' said Big Toomai , scowling . `` He is a very bad boy , and he will end in a jail , Sahib . '' `` Of that I have my doubts , '' said Petersen Sahib . `` A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails . See , little one , here are four annas to spend in sweetmeats because thou hast a little head under that great thatch of hair . In time thou mayest become a hunter too . ''
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