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The moonlight glistened the bronze skin of the silent, crawling thing that was a huge snake, or a giant centipede; it was even like a square-snouted, shovel-headed mugger that had crept up out of the slimy river that circled sluggishly the eastern wall of the palace.
Bring me my gun. I could hear him before I could see him each sound that he made creaking and puffing and rattling his gun, up and down the river. As surely as I had picked up one of his workmen, and thus saved great expense in wood for the burning, so surely would he come down to the Ghaut, and shout in a loud voice that he would hunt me, and rid the river of me the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut!
She turned and ran away as fast as ever she could, and the Mugger ran after her. But the broken chatty round his neck caught his paws, so he could not overtake her. But when she got back to Black Noggy, and told her how the Mugger had broken the chatty, Black Noggy was fearfully angry. "You naughty girl," she said, "you have broken the chatty yourself, I have a good mind to beat you."
The Mugger was lying on the sand-bar as still as his own shadow, his fore-feet spread out a little, his head dropped between them, snoring like a mugger. A voice on the bridge whispered: "It's an odd shot straight down almost but as safe as houses. Better try behind the neck. Golly! what a brute! The villagers will be wild if he's shot, though.
Here come the white-faces." The two Englishmen had hurried down from the bridge and across to the sand-bar, where they stood admiring the length of the Mugger. Then a native with an axe cut off the big head, and four men dragged it across the spit. I was a Mutiny baby, as they call it. Poor mother was in the boat, too, and she often told me how she fired dad's old pistol at the beast's head."
"Be certain that it is only for a little. The Heavenly Ones have heard thee, and presently justice will be done. Go now, mother, to the flood again. Men and cattle are thick on the waters the banks fall the villages melt because of thee." "But the bridge-the bridge stands." The Mugger turned grunting into the undergrowth as Krishna rose. "It is ended," said the Tigress, viciously.
He often wished he did not blush quite so much, seeing he was a man of one-and-twenty. Presently he was hailed by name, and then again. He was pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand's experienced fellow-townsman, as "that beast Lewisham awful swat. He was second last year on the year's work. Frightful mugger. But all these swats have a touch of the beastly prig.
In the town of Kelso there is, it seems, a more or less considerable colony of Irish; and it needs scarcely be said that the mixture of that element with the border material does not work together for the promotion of harmony and good order. At St. James's Fair, held at Kelso on 5th August last, a Scotch butcher-boy quarrelled and fought with an Irish mugger.
Has the river changed its channel, and made new land where there was only sand before? The Mugger knows." "Now, of what use is that knowledge?" said the Jackal. "The river has shifted even in my little life."
So Little Black Mingo took the dhobi's great big chatty, and started again to go to the river. But first she went to a little bank above the river, and peeped up and down, to see if she could see the old Mugger anywhere. But she could not see him, for he was hiding under the very bank she was standing on, and though his tail stuck out a little she never saw him at all.
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