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Updated: May 4, 2025
Now the Jackal had spoken just to be listened to, for he knew flattery was the best way of getting things to eat, and the Mugger knew that the Jackal had spoken for this end, and the Jackal knew that the Mugger knew, and the Mugger knew that the Jackal knew that the Mugger knew, and so they were all very contented together.
As a rule, however, alligators confine themselves to a fish diet, and are glad of any refuse or dead animal that may float their way. But with the mugger, the boach, or square-nosed variety, 'all is fish that comes to his net. His soul delights in young dog or live pork. A fat duck comes not amiss; and impelled by hunger he hesitates not to attack man.
That is sufficient, and I will tell the tale to all my children, asking for no proof." "Over-much civility is sometimes no better than over-much discourtesy, for, as the saying is, one can choke a guest with curds. I do NOT desire that any children of thine should know that the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut took his only wound from a woman.
As we might say back in dear old London, this wily Rajput thinks he has pulled my leg." "I think, Colonel, that you are dead onto his wicket." "Well, then, the thing to do is to emulate the mugger. But this" Hodson lifted the paper and he grew crisp, incisive, his grey eyes blued like temper purpling polished steel "we've got to act: they've got to be delivered, and soon." "I am ready, Sir."
At the top, as he was hanging up his coat in the passage, the zoological demonstrator, a young man from Oxford, who secretly regarded him as a blatant "mugger" of the very worst type, offered his heartiest congratulations. At the laboratory door Hill stopped for a second to get his breath, and then entered.
She wishes to be alone." "Your cousin, except for my timely intrusion, would by this time be permanently secure from interruption in the belly of a mugger," retorted the supposed ascetic in English. Roy started and stared. The voice was unmistakable. "Chandranath! Masquerading as a saint? You are no guru." "And you are no Rajput. You also appear to be masquerading as a lover, perhaps?
A full hour had passed since he and his servant had fought the mugger in the ford. And the utter silence of early night had come down over the jungle. There was only one thing to believe.
But while he was asleep the Mongoose came to eat some more of the eggs, and ate as many as he wanted, and when the Mugger woke this time, oh! WHAT a rage he was in, for there were only six eggs left! He roared so loud that all the little muggers inside the shells gnashed their teeth, and tried to roar too.
The mugger certainly looked a most repulsive brute as it lay stretched on the ground, its jaws occasionally opening and shutting spasmodically, the blood from its wounded throat spreading in a pool on the sun-baked earth. It was evidently an old beast; and skull and back were covered with thick horny plates and bosses through which no bullet could penetrate.
A little killing here and there is no bad thing but even the Mugger is sometimes satisfied, as the saying is." "Marvellous! Most truly marvellous!" said the Jackal. "I am become fat through merely hearing about so much good eating. And afterward what, if it be permitted to ask, did the Protector of the Poor do?" "I said to myself and by the Right and Left of Gunga!
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