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But sweeter far than any sound by mortal ever made Is the tramp of the Buffalo Battery a-going to parade. Chorus: For it's "Hainya! hainya! hainya! hainya!" Twist their tails and go. With a "Hâthi! hâthi! hâthi!" ele-phant and buffalo, "Chow-chow, chow-chow, chow-chow, chow-chow," "Tèri ma!" "Chel-lo!" Oh, that's the way they shout all day, and drive the buffalo.
The thunder was rolling up and down the dry, scarred hills, but it brought no rain only heat lightning that flickered along the ridges and Hathi went on: "THAT was the voice he heard, and it said: 'Is this thy mercy? The First of the Tigers licked his lips and said: 'What matter? I have killed Fear. And Tha said: 'O blind and foolish!
He even allowed himself to be oiled all over occasionally for the good of his health, which was forbearing in a British baby. And always when Abdul shook his finger at him and said 'Gorah pah howdah, hathi pah JEEN! Jeldi bag-gia, Warren HasTEEN! he laughed and crowed as if he quite understood the joke. 'Howdahs on horses, on elephants JEEN! He ran away quickly did Warren HasTEEN!
Here was the awful portal, "the Gau Mukh," or "cow's mouth," by which, when all was lost to Chitor save honour, her women entered the subterranean cavern while the fuel was heaped high, and an honourable death by suffocation awaited them. The burning Indian day was over, and the sun blazed red in the west, as we mounted our elephant and paced along the road towards the Hathi Pol.
Another steadying rope goes round the elephant's breast, like a chest-band. 'A merciful man is merciful to his beast. You should always, therefore, have a sheet of soft well oiled leather to go between the chest and belly ropes and the elephant's hide; this prevents chafing, and is a great relief to the poor old hathi, as they call the elephant. Hatnee is the female elephant.
Keene, who discusses the question at length in his "Handbook to Delhi," accepts this suggestion. Neither of these authorities seem to have been aware of the existence of the marks of the feet on the platform in front of the Agra Hathi Pol.
"Thy kill was from choice?" he asked; and when Hathi asks a question it is best to answer. "Even so. It was my right and my Night. Thou knowest, O Hathi." Shere Khan spoke almost courteously. "Yes, I know," Hathi answered; and, after a little silence, "Hast thou drunk thy fill?" "For to-night, yes." "Go, then. The river is to drink, and not to defile.
Hathi and his three sons had arrived, in their usual way, without a sound. The mud of the river was still fresh on their flanks, and Hathi was thoughtfully chewing the green stem of a young plantain-tree that he had gouged up with his tusks.
He despised and hated them because they did not smell like the Free People, because they did not live in caves, and, above all, because they had hair between their toes while he and his friends were clean-footed. But he knew, for Hathi had told him, what a terrible thing a dhole hunting-pack was.
"Ye know, children," he began, "that of all things ye most fear Man;" and there was a mutter of agreement. "This tale touches thee, Little Brother," said Bagheera to Mowgli. "I? I am of the Pack a hunter of the Free People," Mowgli answered. "What have I to do with Man?" "And ye do not know why ye fear Man?" Hathi went on. "This is the reason.
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