`` He saved our lives and Teddy 's life , '' she said to her husband . `` Just think , he saved all our lives . '' Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump , for the mongooses are light sleepers . `` Oh , it 's you , '' said he . `` What are you bothering for ? 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 XXXXX the song is lost . -RRB-
Mother Rikk-tikki-tikki for if in mongoose of on to with