`` Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes , '' said Chuchundra , more sorrowfully than ever . `` And how am I to be sure that Nag wo n't mistake me for you some dark night ? '' `` There 's not the least danger , '' said Rikki-tikki . `` But Nag is in the garden , and I know you do n't go there . '' `` My cousin Chua , the rat , told me -- '' said Chuchundra , and then he stopped . `` Told you what ? '' `` H'sh ! Nag is everywhere , Rikki-tikki . You should have talked to Chua in the garden . '' `` I did n't -- so you must tell me . Quick , Chuchundra , or I 'll bite you ! '' Chuchundra sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers . `` I am a very poor man , '' he sobbed . `` I never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room . H'sh ! I must n't tell you anything . Ca n't you hear , Rikki-tikki ? '' Rikki-tikki listened . The house was as still as still , but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world -- a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane -- the dry scratch of a snake 's scales on brick-work . `` That 's Nag or Nagaina , '' he said to himself , `` and he is crawling into the bath-room sluice .
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