`` If I could get up to your nest , I 'd roll your babies out ! '' said Rikki-tikki . `` You do n't know when to do the right thing at the right time . You 're safe enough in your nest there , but it 's war for me down here . Stop singing a minute , Darzee . '' `` For the great , the beautiful Rikki-tikki 's sake I will stop , '' said Darzee . `` What is it , O Killer of the terrible Nag ? '' `` Where is Nagaina , for the third time ? '' `` On the rubbish heap by the stables , mourning for Nag . Great is Rikki-tikki with the white teeth . '' `` Bother my white teeth ! Have you ever heard where she keeps her eggs ? '' `` In the melon bed , on the end nearest the wall , where the sun strikes nearly all day . She hid them there weeks ago . '' `` And you never thought it worth while to tell me ? The end nearest the wall , you said ? '' `` Rikki-tikki , you are not going to eat her eggs ? '' `` Not eat exactly ; no . Darzee , if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken , and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush . I must get to the melon-bed , and if I went there now she 'd see me . ''
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