 #1 (permalink) Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:58 am Some more questions from 'The Jungle Book' |
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Hi,
Could you please help me out again with:
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| When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse's neck. |
1. How across a horse's neck? Is it sideward or vertically?
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| I am getting old, and I do not love wild elephants. Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping. |
2. Are they like horse's stables? Why lines?
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I will go out until the day, until the morning break—
Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress;
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!
He very much preferred the camp life, and hated those broad, flat roads, with the daily grubbing for grass in the forage reserve, and the long hours when there was nothing to do except to watch Kala Nag fidgeting in his pickets. |
3. I guess the two 'picket's are different. What are they?
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| What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the valley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away. |
4. What does the 'dip' actually mean?
Many thanks in advance.
Haihao |
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