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Rikki-tikki-tavi Part One
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This exciting and touching story is from the fabulous Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. It’s not one of his more famous Mowgli tales, but is all about a brave mongoose. A mongoose is an animal that looks a little bit like a cross between a cat and a rat. Mongooses are extremely brave – as well as inquisitive – and they fight snakes. The hero of this story – Rikki-tikki-tavi – befriends a small boy called Teddy. In the garden lives the deadly cobra, Nag, and his wicked wife, Nagaina…. Part two is here.
Read by Natasha. Duration 25 Minutes.
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the Tailorbird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice, but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink. He could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use. He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!” One day, a high summer flood washed him out of the burrow where he lived with his father and mother, and carried him, kicking and clucking, down a roadside ditch. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. When he revived, he was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path, very draggled indeed, and a small boy was saying, “Here’s a dead mongoose. Let’s have a funeral.” “No,” said his mother, “let’s take him in and dry him. Perhaps he isn’t really dead.” They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked. So they wrapped him in cotton wool, and warmed him over a little fire, and he opened his eyes and sneezed. “Now,” said the big man (he was an Englishman who had just moved into the bungalow), “don’t frighten him, and we’ll see what he’ll do.” It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose. He looked at the cotton wool, decided that it was not good to eat, ran all round the table, sat up and put his fur in order, scratched himself, and jumped on the small boy’s shoulder. “Don’t be frightened, Teddy,” said his father.
“That’s his way of making friends.” “Ouch! He’s tickling under my chin,” said Teddy.
Rikki-tikki looked down between the boy’s collar and neck, snuffed at his ear, and climbed down to the floor, where he sat rubbing his nose. “Good gracious,” said Teddy’s mother, “and that’s a wild creature! I suppose he’s so tame because we’ve been kind to him.” “All mongooses are like that,” said her husband. “If Teddy doesn’t pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a cage, he’ll run in and out of the house all day long. Let’s give him something to eat.” They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better. “There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.” He spent all that day roaming over the house. He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done. At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too. But he was a restless companion, because he had to get up and attend to every noise all through the night, and find out what made it. Teddy’s mother and father came in, the last thing, to look at their boy, and Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow. “I don’t like that,” said Teddy’s mother. “He may bite the child.” “He’ll do no such thing,” said the father. “Teddy’s safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery now–” But Teddy’s mother wouldn’t think of anything so awful. Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg. He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men. Then Rikki-tikki went out into the garden to see what was to be seen. It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass. Rikki-tikki licked his lips. “This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush. It was Darzee, the Tailorbird, and his wife. They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff. The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried. “What is the matter?” asked Rikki-tikki. “We are very miserable,” said Darzee. “One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him.” “H’m!” said Rikki-tikki, “that is very sad–but I am a stranger here. Who is Nag?” 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–a 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’s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of. “Who is Nag?” said he. “I 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!” 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’s business in life was to fight and eat snakes. Nag knew that too and, at the bottom of his cold heart, he was afraid. “Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?” 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. So he dropped his head a little, and put it on one side. “Let us talk,” he said.
“You eat eggs. Why should not I eat birds?” “Behind you! Look behind you!” sang Darzee.
Rikki-tikki knew better than to waste time in staring. He jumped up in the air as high as he could go, and just under him whizzed by the head of Nagaina, Nag’s wicked wife. She had crept up behind him as he was talking, to make an end of him. He heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed. He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra. He bit, indeed, but did not bite long enough, and he jumped clear of the whisking tail, leaving Nagaina torn and angry.
“Wicked, wicked Darzee!” said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush. But Darzee had built it out of reach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro. Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose’s eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage. But Nag and Nagaina had disappeared into the grass. When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next. Rikki-tikki did not care to follow them, for he did not feel sure that he could manage two snakes at once. So he trotted off to the gravel path near the house, and sat down to think. It was a serious matter for him. If you read the old books of natural history, you will find they say that when the mongoose fights the snake and happens to get bitten, he runs off and eats some herb that cures him. That is not true. The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot–snake’s blow against mongoose’s jump–and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake’s head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb. Rikki-tikki knew he was a young mongoose, and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind. It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted. But just as Teddy was stooping, something wriggled a little in the dust, and a tiny voice said: “Be careful. I am Death!” It was Karait, the dusty brown snakeling that lies for choice on the dusty earth; and his bite is as dangerous as the cobra’s. But he is so small that nobody thinks of him, and so he does the more harm to people. Rikki-tikki’s eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family. It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.
If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return stroke in his eye or his lip. But Rikki did not know. His eyes were all red, and he rocked back and forth, looking for a good place to hold. Karait struck out. Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close. Teddy shouted to the house: “Oh, look here! Our mongoose is killing a snake.” And Rikki-tikki heard a scream from Teddy’s mother. His father ran out with a stick, but by the time he came up, Karait had lunged out once too far, and Rikki-tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back, dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away. That bite paralyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin. He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy’s father beat the dead Karait. “What is the use of that?” thought Rikki-tikki. “I have settled it all;” and then Teddy’s mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy’s father said that he was a providence, and Teddy looked on with big scared eyes. Rikki-tikki was rather amused at all the fuss, which, of course, he did not understand. Teddy’s mother might just as well have petted Teddy for playing in the dust. Rikki was thoroughly enjoying himself. That night at dinner, walking to and fro among the wine-glasses on the table, he might have stuffed himself three times over with nice things. But he remembered Nag and Nagaina, and though it was very pleasant to be patted and petted by Teddy’s mother, and to sit on Teddy’s shoulder, his eyes would get red from time to time, and he would go off into his long war cry of “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!” Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin. Rikki-tikki was too well bred to bite or scratch, but as soon as Teddy was asleep he went off for his nightly walk round the house, and in the dark he ran up against Chuchundra, the musk-rat, creeping around by the wall. Chuchundra is a broken-hearted little beast. He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room. But he never gets there. “Don’t kill me,” said Chuchundra, almost weeping. “Rikki-tikki, don’t kill me!” “Do you think a snake-killer kills muskrats?” said Rikki-tikki scornfully.
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes,” said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever. “And how am I to be sure that Nag won’t mistake me for you some dark night?” “There’s not the least danger,” said Rikki-tikki. “But Nag is in the garden, and I know you don’t go there.” “My cousin Chua, the rat, told me–” said Chuchundra, and then he stopped.
“Told you what?” “H’sh! Nag is everywhere, Rikki-tikki. You should have talked to Chua in the garden.” “I didn’t–so you must tell me. Quick, Chuchundra, or I’ll bite you!”
Chuchundra sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers. “I am a very poor man,” he sobbed. “I never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room. H’sh! I mustn’t tell you anything. Can’t you hear, Rikki-tikki?” Rikki-tikki listened. The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world–a noise as faint as that of a wasp walking on a window-pane–the dry scratch of a snake’s scales on brick-work. “That’s Nag or Nagaina,” he said to himself, “and he is crawling into the bath-room sluice. You’re right, Chuchundra; I should have talked to Chua.” He stole off to Teddy’s bath-room, but there was nothing there, and then to Teddy’s mother’s bathroom. 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. “When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again. Go in quietly, and remember that the big man who killed Karait is the first one to bite. Then come out and tell me, and we will hunt for Rikki-tikki together.”
“But are you sure that there is anything to be gained by killing the people?” said Nag.
“Everything. When there were no people in the bungalow, did we have any mongoose in the garden? So long as the bungalow is empty, we are king and queen of the garden; and remember that as soon as our eggs in the melon bed hatch (as they may tomorrow), our children will need room and quiet.” “I had not thought of that,” said Nag. “I will go, but there is no need that we should hunt for Rikki-tikki afterward. I will kill the big man and his wife, and the child if I can, and come away quietly. Then the bungalow will be empty, and Rikki-tikki will go.” 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. Nag waved to and fro, and then Rikki-tikki heard him drinking from the biggest water-jar that was used to fill the bath. “That is good,” said the snake.
Kipling wrote some of the best animal stories for children, including his Jungle Books and Just So stories. His language is rich, inventive, and sonorous.
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Thanks for the narrative. It’s greatly helping our high school speech class prepare for a readers’ theatre performance.
Hello
That is very good. Riki-Tiki-Tavi is a tale we remember of the young Indian mongoose who helps a family from a deadly rattlesnake.
There are other wonderful Rudyard Kippling tales on Storynory.com including The White Seal
i love this book so so much i’m learning about it right now in my English langue arts class
It alright Maybe for a child
Story was Great i will read this book again
it okay i guess
I LIKE THE STORY VERY MUCH IT IS REALLY NICE I LEARED THIS STORY IN MY SCHOOL DAYS I REALY LOVE IT THIS STORY SUPER SUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LIKE THE STORY VERY MUCH IN MY SCHOOL DAY I LEANED IT IS REALLY NICE SUPER SUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love this story it grat
Hello
Thanks for your comment. Rikki- Tikki -Tavi is a story that could be told to many over the generations. The Mongoose who helps the family from the slithering rattle snake is good to the family and in turn they reward him and give him home. This can be applied to many family’s today for instance who may have family pets that they have given a home to.
Thanks for listening to this far off tale by Rudyard Kippling
Bye Bye
The story is very good and the details are perfect. The story would be a good story to tell over generations.
Hello thank you that is very good to know
Storynory stories are always useful and can be so useful to use in school if u listen and read along with the text. Thanks for listening
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Hello
That is super I hope u have a nice time on your travels and maybe you will get time to share some stories.Thanks for listening
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I love this story ever since I was 3 or 4.
it cool
not bad at all
It is a good story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cool book, it for kid
This story is good, 70 percent of the kid love it.
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I LOVE THIS STORY
I REALLY LOVE THIS STORY IT CATCHES YOUR ATTENTION
not bad but too long
booorrriiinnnggg!!!
How stupid are you immature losers the story is FABULOUS. I think it’s cool even if if it was for school, my teacher,Ms. Rider, made it fun by showing us the animation version. You guys should try growing up for a change. I’m in jr. high school and I can’t stand it, but this story is the only thing I’ve enjoyed.(Except the super-hot guys:)
boring! boring!
had to use it 4 school:/
I wasted my time reading this dumb story! >:(
stupid part 1, but an awesome part 2!
that was dumb i have to do it for school
dumb i hate it
i’m going with my dad
so confusing and horrible mythird class story ughhh!:(
awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome awsome
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story alright
i love it it is awesome
i like this story
Thank u i needed this for my seventh grade project i have to write two pages :[
boring
I like this story! It helped me a lot in my Plot test!!
it dont make eny dang sence but its kool… its homwork lol thnks outher xD
this story is great i love the jungle book. the movie is cool too.
i haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it so far it is terrible
I enjoy this story. It is very interesting and catches the reader.(:
Anybody who doesn’t think this story is awesome, is **********! Thats right, uncultural! I am a high class critique and i give this story 4 and a half stars out of 5.
I love this story its so entertaining especially with the added voices
Awesome!
AWESOME…. :)
great i love this book
:D
i like this book its not bad :)
i dont like the story
i like the story so far just need to fing out Darzees characteristics
we think the story is great so far tomarrow we will listen to part two
I love this story! I am here for hw and i have to tell Nag and Nagaina’s side of the story… so this should be fun! Thanks so much for having this story up here!
SMH…..WHY IS THE STORY SO LONG????
i lyk it
i like the story and got the meanings i wanted !!!!!!!! :P the story was different and kind of akward !
its a good story i had to find some words and i found them! :P
Really good
this is a cool story with the action
bad
is cool
PS: Natasha you were amazing!
Bertie I loved this story! Thanks for putting it on Story Nory. This is my first time reading it, and it was my favorite time. Thank you SOOOO much!
I am in 7 grade and we had to read this for school! this story is stupid and un age appropriate for us.
i like this story but its like confusing but yea over all i love it cool story um yea i will probably read it again and i hate reading loll :p but yea love it and yea for thoughts that dont like this story u should try focusing on the story so u can understand it like my teachers say reading is the passport to the future
I do like this story though it is very good
i like this but not the person reading it it is good!
I love adventurous stories like this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :]
hi! I love this story! we had to read it in class and everybody thought it was really cute. Does anyone know where I can find the movie?
Good story. I have to right 5 whole page on a summary of what happened. Man, Id rather do a bunch of math problems . But I admit, it is a good story.
It is a very nice story and i like it very much
it is a very nice story. i liked it very much
I didn’t really like it. It doesn’t make since to me.
i love this story but at the same time i hate it
ahha. this is the book we’re doing for class ;P Its an okkaay story ;)
its ok i guess
i like this story,but it would nice to just have a whole of it’s beginning middle and ending,
Hello
Thank you for your comment,
Riki tiki tavi is a special Rudyard Kipling story about an unusual creature with a magical tale.
Thanks for listening
Bye Bye
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this is a good story but its to long but its are class story soo yha!!!!
Hi i really loved the fact that it made me feel like a little kid again,i enjoyed it very much =)
(7th grader)
this story is so boring
third class story
i guess i’ll have to invest in a pet mongoose…
hahaha this story is sooooooo weird. hi every one on gold team :)
bad bad bad stupid story, hi everyone whos on here for hw!
DONT HATE!! APPRECIATE!!
kinda cool:D studying for the test!
Idk kinda good??
Jake from the gold team in Ms. Savolainens homeroom says:
This story is awful, i hate it, hi to all who come on from the gold team
This story was kind of scary but cool
Hi to all of my friends who have come on here for homework
bad story! i hate it!!!!!
THIS STORY IS THE WORST I HAVE EVER READ. RUDYARD, U SUCK
I love this story. The best book that i have read!
very bad
great story- great reader Thanx
I like this story and I have rading it this week on my school in 7 grade.
it is wonderful story and the school teached us this story in grade seven
This is the best story ever!!!!!!
great book great story
I love this story!
This story is great! Me and my friend were listening to it and we both agreed that it should be scored 10 out of 10! Our kids love it!
Wonderful story telling and what a great story for kids to listen to!
I like Rikki-tikki-tavi’s war cry Rikki-tikki-tikk-tikki-tavi!!!!!!
it is all right but i want a mongoose
i loved it
i hate this story
WHAT IS RIKKI TIKKI’S FULL NAME????
Whats up with all the ryming???
I love this story so much. The only thing is though is that it is sooooooooo drawn out and long.
In like this website poses make more read a lonngs!!!
nice story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aww wat am i saying this story is more like a kid book not a book seventh and eigth graders want to read but besides that it koooool!!!! good illistrations by the way who ever illistrated the pictures for the cartoon movie it was very cut!!!! :)
this story is soooo boring uhh i had to learn about it in language arts and like we’ve been learning bout it for like more than a month already LIKE REALLY i mean like COME ON NO ONE LIKE TO FOCUSS ON ONE BOOK FOR TWO MONTHS!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHA YA but thats just my opinion!!
I like this story
worst story ever
Dear trisha merina kiush Thanks so much for your kind comments.
i love this story and website so much
This is such a good book and we are working on that book at school thats a very good book.I had homework on this and it helped me very good that i got a AT on it i was very happy at this website.then my teacher said were did u get these answers from i said off the computer she was kinda excited
I love this ssssssssssssssssssssstttttttttttttttttttttttttooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I love this story
Salem please see link to part two in the introduction above
why is the story incomplete !!!!!!???11??!?!?!?!
this story was okaee but they qatta explain the eninq i like how a story explains the beqinninq to the end,but the endinq sucks!
this is such a qood story that i could just read this over and over aqain.my younqer brother loved it so much that he wanted to show all of his friends at school.my parents thouqht it was a very qood storyy!
Alexis B.I think that Rickki tikki will wait until Nag is in the hallway before he bites Nag.
Mimi: Why do they call Teddy a baby? How old is he?
Daniel S: The story is suspenseful.
Adriana:Why did they compare the birds and the eggs together? That was confusing. Anybody have an explanation?
Chloe: Frightening and interesting
Madison: Scary and amazing
Shayna: I think Rikki-Tikki will die.
i love this story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
this is so confusing -______-
Fantastic!!!
i love the story
I really enjoyed this story because @ first i thought it would be stupid and educational but now that im actually readn it , its amazing
It dosent read the whole story bt it was great i really liked it thanks
THIS STORY IS SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!
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This was a very good summary and very helpful for book reports as I was doing. It would be ver nice to have the rest of the story though.
This book is awesome, I will read it over and over again till I get dizzy. lol :)
I LIKED THE STORY
I hate this story but I have to do it as a project. Ughhhhh!
I wish that you could just give a summary of what happened in the story.
Can u play the 2nd part
Haha. The person who said “Oh yah this is good” is one of my classmates. Lol. Just wanated to say that. :)
dear Obama it’s the jungle book by kipling
does anyone know were to bye this book i want this book so bad if you have kids read this book to them yes this is your president bye this book or ill kill you and your whole family
this is the coolest story ever ill read this story any day of my life my life was changed
oh yah this is good
i love this book i love it i am reading this book at school and i want to tell u that if u haven’t read this book yet then u need to it is a really good book and u would like it
this story is good what do u think the story will be like if it was writing from nagiana piont of viw
i wanted to tead this book becouse im reading it at school and i dont understabd it i love it
i really injoyed this story please contiue with reading story’s
that story was realy interesting and fasanating i only need to read the second part of it
this is a really gud story but i dont get wut its about
im reading this story at my school and i decided to look it up and found it and i really thnk its a great story so far!!!!!!!
i liked the story but i didnt very much liked the ending, didnt described what exctacly happened
I think its a awesome story.
Wow,I realy enjoyed listening to this story. I was able to see what’s happening through listening.
dis iz 1 very retareded story
i love this story it is the bomb
I love all your books but this ones my favourite
asome
I really like this story I remember reading it as a little kid!!!!!! :)
This is a really good story! I think everyone needs to read this. :)
This book is great everyone will like it
cool voice
I love this story.. great detail, im impressed
I like it but it just leaves off and doesn’t tell you how Nagaina dies[if she even does for real] so we just have to make that part up I guess but besides that i liked it.
I didnt like the way that the author described how rikki killed nagaina cuz we didnt know what exactly happened
I can’t beleive some people actually dislike this story! who couldn’t love it?
My favorite story- iv’e been reading it since I was little!
it does not tell us what the story is about!
I Liked the story but I didnt like the way that the author described how rikki killed nagaina coz we dint know what exactly happened
So cool lots of action!!!
I hate this story… but I had to read it for school.. so whatever…
I LOVE THIS STORY!!!!!
its so cute but really long the movie is kind of better!!!!!!
stupid story
Nicee story…!I like it..!:)(:
Whats the rising action of the story ?
I Think its OK
I was so happy when I read this!I forgot my book in my locker and there is a test tomorrow.So I looked this up and it has an Audio with it.Saves me from reading.:) Well I just wanted to day thank you for making this.Have a good day!(:
its veryy long but its good
ok
this is so cool im never gonna read again i just sat watching football and eating popcorn it is way better then reading
I SO LOVE IT!!!!! SO CUTE!!!!!!
this is an okay story..not really one of my favorites=)
i just didnt want 2 read it so i came on here so this could read it 4 me :) hehe
this is my #1 story i luv it man!!!!!!!!!am @ school and its boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol haha this is cool!!!:)
This is awesom!!!:)
its awsome
my little girl loves mongooses, we are from st.croix, there are soo many there!! well this story is adorable! thanks for pleaseing my little one!
cute story, Im reading it for school, quite long though.
sam y u on here
its ok, really long sis loved it
good story ……. the first time after you read it a couple times it gets boooorrrrrrring!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I really am thankful u do this for my child! She truly loves this very much! One time i walked in her bedroom lisening to tikki takki tavi!! hahah
good story were reading it for school!
it was a good story i loved it but the person that was reading the story i was listing to was saying words that wornt even in the story u need to seurch that but i luved the stroy!!(:
This is a pretty good story i have to read it in school. It is really long though so i like it because i think the mongoose sounds cute!
hate it
pretty good story… a little lengthy… have to read it for school
i love this story of corse if i read it before bedtime
this a really good story and plus for little kids . My kid loved it and her name hanna baker and she only five years old.
hate it. to boringg..
wow
real good real good
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i luv dis story
“im bout to fall into the writings on the wall the secrets they reavel the story that they tell can i keep it from the world or will it kill?”…..
This is part of the song I wrote for the upcoming talent show we cant do a song alreday made so we must do either singles or groups and make a song with a actual beat perlude and catchi words before i make the trak i wanted to know what all the storynory users think and the storynory creaters think!?!??!!?!?!??!
yes i do but i didnt read all of it but i really do like it
i love this it is the best
I read this story in american lit i thought it sucked but having it read by an animated voice it was slightly more interesting and gave me an new perspective about rikki tikki and his peers i will be finding other stories for this site to read to me!!!
hey this is a good book
that was awful
lovd it
thus is one of the best stories i have read sinse the summer seeing how i don’t like to read
this story was grate the voise was funny. grate job
wow
nice voice women
i like it.. must be a great singer hah?
good job any ways for making this more easier for me thanks bub!
This website is a great tool for teaching students to read with excitement! It also gives all of us an appreciation for the classics!
this is a good story
love it lalalal lalala lalalalalalalala lalalal
I really liked how Rikki Tikki Tavi fought with Nag.
i really loved rikki tikki tavi
This was a really good experience! I love your expressions! Job well done!
thanx very much for ur help u helped me for my homework thanx a lot
I love this story. They have it as a movie, too.
I have heard this many times on storynory, and I still like it!!!
In this is story very fantastic>>
it wasnt cool at all
Caterin, The reason we ask to write in English is because we moderate the comments, and have to understand them to know that there are no offensive words or anything like that. I usually let French and Russian through because I can more or less understand them. If I have time, and can recognise what the language is, I can turn to Google Translate. Yes, Ricki Ticki is often set as a school project, and it does put quite a lot of people off – a bit like school lunches, you don’t have much choice – but it is a fabulous story and was a favourite of mine when my father read it to me quite a few years ago.
what if i dont wana write in English? anyway, i think is a good story, and it would be better if i didnt have to read it for a school project.
I read thos book in 7th grade. I hated this book, it’s lame.
this book is good
Dear Okay, if we put both parts of Rikki in one file it would be about an hour long and take for ever to download – so we split it into two
but why couldnt they just put the 2 parts together
the story is interesting i guess
i love rikkitikkitavi so much!
Love this story!
Looong,but ends up bieng a good story
Great story! I love Rikki-tikki!
great web site this book is so great it inspired me to make a mental image of a mongoose in my head with all the details the story has
great website have a test tomorrow in school for a quartlerly this saved me
I love the story!!! I am working on a project in school on it.
this is a boring story
hm…..i had to do a work sheet of it haha mah class didnt like it a lot not the best i do agree it’s ok not something i would choose to read tho…..sry if someone likes it and is offended by mah comment.
it’s reallie long tho haha but yea it’s ok.
this is a very long and interesting story(“:
What a great Story. I hope I get to read this book.
this stori sucks we just took it in grade 8
i realii dont like this book
we just read this in 7th grade i hate it
This is a GREAT book.
This story is cool!
Thanks
Thanks a ton!!!! you saved my butt for english im telling my teacher mrs . mathews(7th grade english) about this place
i read this story at school in my english class but failed my test so i read the book again and i wanted and audio version so i could again read it again but also listen to it. it is the best resource ive ever forund! :)
I love Rikki Tikki Tavi. I love mongooses. It is a really good story!!!!1
this was a very asome story and I can’t wait to hear and\or read the other part to RIKKI TIKKI TAVI
i love this story it is the best!!!! were reading it in school………my whole class loves it, we even wached the cartoon :) :) :)
rikki tikki tavi is an awsome story and i also love mongoose and snakes. KING COBRAS ROCK
i love this story !
we heard it in class at school.
and now im doing a project on it.
7th gradeeee yoo’ :)
hahaha , much lovee♥
- yo’ home gurrrrllll !!
i listen to your stories all nite u rock the stories r awesome and so r u iv listened 2 all of the bertie stories and cant wait for more! <3 YA!
Katie, Rikki-tikki-tavi is set in India
what is the setting
I love all of the storys on storynory. It is the beast story ever. And my famly loves it.
We loved this – Natasha reads it SO beautifully, but we couldn’t dowload it in iTunes, has anyone else been able to?
Heaven – thank you and glad that you are enjoying Rikki-tikki-tavi
?love the story! makes me want to have a mongoose. Natasha, i can almost hear you speaking on storynory while i read this so once again great job
i do not like this book its veary veary boring=C
I though It was a wonderful story ,i would tell my 6 year old
friend
I loved the book
its awsome
it’s okay but i have to read it for a class grade:(((((
It’s okay I guess:(
cool
I love this story my we are reading it in my 7th grade class it is awesome
hey!!! =) your amazing!!! i love you so much!!!
Horrible story it was touture to read -.-
Thanks for the great story
It was a great story
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring
I really enjoyed the story because it is exciting because riki tiki tavi kills the snakes and
he is brave
i love this story iread in class today
I am in the 7th grade. Rikki Tikki is cute.
That was a cool story!
Yes is was a great story!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey this mongoose is so cute! He is a saver! ILY rikki
:) good story
the story was ok i like it but i fell asleep during half of it lol
I love this story, it was very good and itersting.
THIS STORY REALLY ROCKS!! \(^o^)/ YEAH!
I LOVE THIS STORY VERY MUCH!! I THINK I HAD READ THIS FOR A THOUSAND TIME ALREADY!! :D EXCELLENT STORY!!! :)
we just read last week in 7th grade i think its weird i like duffys jaket better
i cant believe im taking this story for elementry im in the eighth grade for crying out loud!!!!!!
I like it very much. I was interested in it reading of this book.
i hade to read this for school but i was to lazy to read it so i went to this web sight
hi
I love this story!!!!!!!! Lol!
Very nice!
hey bernie.. ireally want more stories..
carolyn, what school do u go to?
thi9s story, im reading right now in 7th grade too.
its okay..
THE STORY IS LONG. BUT ITAS STILL GOOD.
I LIKE IT. :)
this story is really long.
this story is really long. :/
but its pretty good…
This is a classic story that I remember from my childhood, of course it was an animated version, so I’m passing on my love for this and other classic stories to my young daughter.
LAME STORIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
I LOVE THE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)
we read that story in 7th grade
THIS STORIES WAS THE MOST OF THE STORIES THAT I HAVE READ SO THAT WAS A GOOD STORIES
i read this book in me reading class at richard w. warren in we can say say we LOVE IT THIS IS FORM THE SEVENTH GRADE
Thanks for providing this story in audio form on-line. I teach students with disabilities whom are not grade-level readers. This audio story has been very useful instructional tool.
I’m sorry…you are mistaken-the correct term is Mongeese
Well, think a lot for that. Because that is a very good story. And that is so nice for you to had the sound to go with it. Because my english is not very good, without the sound, I might not got to know what the story say.
This is very good i really enjoyed this
it’s very scary!!!!!!!!!!
too long
is a cool story
Dear Bertie,
My daughter Olivia 3 and a HALF YEARS old loved it very much. Thank u.
[...] to read “Little One Inch” this week, but instead we listened to Kipling’s ”Rikki-tikki-tavi” on StoryNory. Then, we checked out the animated version at the library. Paladin LOVES the [...]
Hi Macy
Glad you like Ricki Ticki and it helped you with your homework – we have loads more stories here
http://storynory.com/archives/
This is so great i love it you helped me out with my Ab homework! Do you do others? mmkay well thanks a whole BUNCHES! :)
thanks again,
macy
I was born in 1931 and i can still remember this book
old stories never die, they just sit waiting to be used again…
i have just read this in class for the first time and i loved it my fav is rickie tickie tavie and nagina the snack
it helps to have someone reading along with you.thanks natasha
you did amazing i love your voice
this s##t is boring
this book was supper great and i would like to read more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was okay??
Oh…it’s so long I think ^^
heck and no discibe this story
fabilous work
nice voice
Thanks for the story!!! :) :) :) :o)
I listened to this in class and I found it very funny and interesting
SHE have a BRITISH ACCENT!
Thanks for the story I needed it for homework!:)
It’s alright
ggggg
blount
I like this story because I like to read about different creatures that I have never seen or heard of before but it is sooooooooooooooo long but I would definintly read this story again.
good story
i like this story because it reminds me of me and my step sister samantha. love you sam
ttly awsome! I ttly luv rikki tikki tavi! and have u ever seen a mongoose? their sooooooooooooooooo cuite thay kinda look like squirls in the fac their so cuite!!!!!!!
i’ve read the story but now my teacher has the movie so i have to watch that too! try living with that people!!!!!!!!!!
Soooooooooooo long!
i really like the story b/c i have to do a test on it so today’s the study time for me & tommorow too the test is on the 13 0r 14 don’t but i will be ready for the test its august the 13 or 14 of 2007 iight help me please?????????>>>>>>>>???????????>>>>>>>>>
I love this story.
KUTTA SALA KAMINA. WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.
You are a very nice frog Bertie and I hope you and Beatrice will be together someday I am sure of it ;) And you can ask me about my mongooses anytime :)
Homer
That’s wonderful. Thank you for tell me all about Hoobey and Yakuro.
Bertie
Bertie the truth is I do have a mongoose exept it lives on the farm of my uncle his… his farmis not very popular so it probably wont show on internet my mongoose name IS Hoobey and he now is 2 years old and he has a sister named Yakurno witch is my sisters yakurno is about 2 in a half… well tell me if there is anything else you would want to know about my sister and i’s mongooses :)
I am so sorry betie but each time I try to take a picture of him he runs away… but I will try again today :)
Homer – Perhaps your mongoose is never angry
If you really have a mongoose as a pet can you send us a picture ? I’ll post it on the site…
Bertie@storynory.com
This story is awsome but I am relly not soooo sure that mongooses eyes turn red when they are angry, because I have a mongoose as a pet and its eyes never turn red… so is mine broken or something?
thank you ilove your stories
the mongoose is really sweet, o boy.
My kids love this story!!! We listen to it every night for bed. Keep em coming!!!!
“Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
XD
i luv mongooses
:D
i read this story in my class i thought it was prety cool
=]
Linda, Sally, Mike,
Glad you like Riki Tiki because the story has always been one of my favourites too. Mongooses are for real. I’ve seen some in East Africa (rather scruffy looking) and of course they can be found in India .
More on the Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose
Best
Bertie
hey bertie what are mongosse and were are they from are they real
were do mogoose live? real cool story
hey berty do u have more aniamale storys like this this was great
Anthony,
They call him Rikki Tikki Tavi because he makes a sound like “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
Why do they call him Rikki Tikki Tavi?
hey I really enjoyed the story will these storys always be free hey bertie thank you
not bad
Amir,
thanks alot too
tanks alot
Hi Jeny,
I’m afraid I don’t know Lisa personally – she just dropped by and left a nice comment – like you. Thank you for letting us know which stories you like.
Bye! Bye! for now!
Bertie
who is lisa, Beritie?
I want to be friends.
my name is jeny.
nice to meet you
Nice making the story.
I had read the story before.
It is really fun.
nice to meet you everyone.
bye bye
Both my children, Stella and Sammy, loved the story. Thank you. Very well acted!
Lisa, we’ve always loved Rikki-tikki too and have been looking forward to doing this for a long time. Part two follows on Sunday.
Excellent work again, Natasha! We’re glad you chose this story – it’s an old favourite. So nice to hear you read it after watching the animation made back in the 70′s. :)