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Aha! my children, the Mugger knows the Mugger knows and my Malwah Jats are a good people!" "They are too close too narrow in the hand for my crop," croaked the Adjutant. "They waste not the polish on the cow's horn, as the saying is; and, again, who can glean after a Malwai?" "Ah, I glean THEM," said the Mugger.
All was still and quiet; not a sound, save the loud ticking of a timepiece, or the occasional creak of a jarring door, disturbed the solemn silence of the house. A nimble-handed mugger or tramp might have carried off whatever he liked. Passing onward, Mr.
I ain't sure as I 'adn't better stick to the road, and keep away from old 'ands like you, Jim." "Doin' well, eh?" said Jim. "Not so dusty," said Mr. Beale cautiously; "we mugger along some'ow. An' 'e's got so red in the face, and plumped out so, they'll soon say 'e doesn't want their dibs." "Starve 'im a bit," said the red-whiskered man cheerfully. Mr. Beale laughed. Then he spat thoughtfully.
"Certainly most certainly," said the Jackal, without waiting for the other to finish. "What?" said the Mugger angrily, for he could feel that the others knew more than he did. "What might it be? I never finished my words. You said it was a bullock." "It is anything the Protector of the Poor pleases. I am HIS servant not the servant of the thing that crosses the river."
Then he settled down, and, accustomed as the Jackal was to his ways, he could not help starting, for the hundredth time, when he saw how exactly the Mugger imitated a log adrift on the bar. He had even taken pains to lie at the exact angle a naturally stranded log would make with the water, having regard to the current of the season at the time and place.
"Assuredly, Father, I might have known," said the Jackal. A mugger does not care to be called a father of jackals, and the Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut said as much and a great deal more which there is no use in repeating here. "The Protector of the Poor has claimed kinship. How can I remember the precise degree? Moreover, we eat the same food. He has said it," was the Jackal's reply.
"When I was in my third season, a young and a bold bird, I went down to the river where the big boats come in. The boats of the English are thrice as big as this village." "He has been as far as Delhi, and says all the people there walk on their heads," muttered the Jackal. The Mugger opened his left eye, and looked keenly at the Adjutant. "It is true," the big bird insisted.
The Teljuga is the boundary stream between Tirhoot and Bhaugulpore, and its sluggish muddy waters teem with alligators the regular square-nosed mugger, the terrible man-eater. The nakar or long-nosed species may be seen in countless numbers in any of the large streams, stretched out on the banks basking in the noonday sun.
"But this goes beyond a mock," said the Tigress, darting forward a griping paw. "Thou knowest, Shiv, and ye, too, Heavenly Ones; ye know that they have defiled Gunga. Surely they must come to the Destroyer. Let Indra judge." The Buck made no movement as he answered: "How long has this evil been?" "Three years, as men count years," said the Mugger, close pressed to the earth.
Don't cry like that you mustn't...." She obeyed instinctively; and stood there, like a chidden child, battling with her sobs. "Where's the thing? What's happened?" he asked, seeming to disregard her effort at control. "There over there. Look ... the mugger!" "Mugger?" He sighted it. "Well, I'm the thieving brute!" Humour lurked in his voice more tonic than sympathy; yet in a sense, more upsetting.
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