{"id":23907,"date":"2023-05-20T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=23907"},"modified":"2023-05-20T20:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:16:35","slug":"21may2023-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/21may2023-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"21MAY2023 \u2013 Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23909\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1067\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Nag-and-Rikki-Tikki-Tavi-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JUNGLE BOOK<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRikki-Tikki-Tavi\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d asked Rikki-tikki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very miserable,\u201d said Darzee. \u201cOne of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cH\u2019m!\u201d said Rikki-tikki, \u201cthat is very sad\u2014but I am a stranger here. Who is Nag?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss\u2014a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet. Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail. When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake\u2019s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is Nag?\u201d said he. \u201cI am Nag. The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept. Look, and be afraid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening. He was afraid for the minute, but it is impossible for a mongoose to stay frightened for any length of time, and though Rikki-tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose\u2019s business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, \u201cmarks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nag was thinking to himself, and watching the least little movement in the grass behind Rikki-tikki. He knew that mongooses in the garden meant death sooner or later for him and his family, but he wanted to get Rikki-tikki off his guard. 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