An interesting story about a small brave mongoose was written by Rudyard Kipling. If you want to recall the plot of the story, but there is no time to read it in full, then you can now learn the history of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Summary in 5 minutes will introduce the reader to it.
How Ricky appeared in the house
The little mongoose lived with its parents in the forests of India. Once there was a heavy downpour, and the animal washed away into the ditch with a strong stream of water. He nearly died. People saved him. They saw a sinking mongoose and pulled it out of the ditch. It was a family consisting of dad, mom and son. At first they thought that the mongoose was inanimate, but then he opened his eyes. Mother carried the animal to the house to dry. The mongoose was fed and named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
Ricky liked the house, he began to carefully examine everything and even stained his muzzle in ink, but he was not scolded for it. The little naughty man made friends with Teddy. He even slept with the boy in the same bed.
Animals - friends and enemies of the mongoose
The heroes of the fairy tale “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” are not only mom, dad, their son Teddy, but also animals. The boy made friends with the birds - Darcy and his wife. Those told him a sad story. Recently, the couple’s chick fell out of the nest, and it was swallowed by the cruel Nag. The mongoose did not yet know that it was a big snake. A pair of cobras lived in a nest under the floor and was a great danger to people. On this day, the first meeting of a small animal with cruel reptiles took place.
Then the snakes themselves crawled away from him. At the next meeting with the deadly couple, the more decisive little Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was already acting. The summary smoothly approaches the most tense moment.
Scramble
Rikki ran to Chuchundra (a musky rat who was afraid of everything but knew a lot) to ask her about the cobras. While talking to her, he heard a conversation between Naga and his wife Nagaina. They developed an insidious plan. Nagaina told her husband that he should sting a man when he goes to wash. The insidious cobra explained what it was for. After all, the couple hid eggs in a melon bed, from which the cubs should hatch very soon. If Nag and Nagayn destroy people, they will become masters of the house, and then the mongoose, which poses a danger to their children, will leave from there.
Nag agreed and crawled into the jug to sting the father of the family the next morning. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi followed him. The summary will tell how decisive fights took place. The mongoose contrived and glared at the snake with its sharp teeth. Nag began to twirl it. But Ricky's dead grip did not weaken. The mongoose began to be exhausted, but then a shot rang out. This came to the aid of a big man. He, his wife Alice, and the son of Teddy were very grateful to the little savior. The next morning, he continued his exploits.
Decisive battle
Ricky persuaded the birds to pretend to be wounded in front of Nagina. Then she will follow them and crawl to the right place so that the mongoose comes into battle with her. But things didn’t go according to plan. At first, the wife of Darcy, pretending to be wounded, carried Nagaina with her. But then she crawled to the veranda where the family had breakfast, and was about to bite Teddy.
Meanwhile, on a melon bed, he had already strangled almost all of the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi snake embryos. The summary ends with the fact that, taking the last egg in his teeth, the mongoose ran to Nagayna and thereby distracted her attention from the boy. The snake asked the animal to give her a serpent. But Ricky attacked her and won the decisive battle.
This is how the story of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” ends. The brave mongoose saved people and animals from dangerous cobras.