 #1 (permalink) Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:25 am Some more questions from 'The Jungle Book' |
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Hi,
Again I have come across some difficulties. Could you please help me out?
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| Chuchundra sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers. |
1. Does 'the tears rolled off his whiskers' suggest: the tears rolled out of his eyes, came down to his whiskers and finally let off his whiskers?
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| At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight. |
2. Does the underlined portion mean: Rikki-tikki sneaked in the sluice by passing the 'small ditch' around which the bath is put?
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Rikki-tikki tingled all over with rage and hatred at this, and then Nag's head came through the sluice, and his five feet of cold body followed it. Angry as he was, Rikki-tikki was very frightened as he saw the size of the big cobra. Nag coiled himself up, raised his head, and looked into the bathroom in the dark, and Rikki could see his eyes glitter.
"Now, if I kill him here, Nagaina will know; and if I fight him on the open floor, the odds are in his favor. What am I to do?" said Rikki-tikki-tavi. |
3. I suppose that the above happenings occured inside the bathroom. If so, why 'Nag looked into the bathroom' and why Rikki-tikki thought if I kill him here, Nagaina will know; and if I fight him [u]on the open floor? Where is 'here' and where is the 'open floor'?
Many thanks in advance.
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