Nilghai

I have been at the agreeable pains of reconstructing the verses as they were probably written, so that there are two more than the Nilghai sang.

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'Surely you aren't taking all the stuff in the papers seriously?' said the Nilghai.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

'Aren't you worrying him a little too much?' asked the Nilghai, when

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

'He's doing first-class work,' he said to the Nilghai, 'and it's quite out of his regular line.

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The Nilghai chuckled, and Dick resumed his drowsy brooding and sullen rebellion against fate.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

Language, and Torpenhow withdrew to consult the Nilghai, who had come it to talk continental politics.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

'The man who has been down to look at the sea,' said the Nilghai.

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Nilghai with any clothes on, under any circumstances.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

Then the Nilghai, despairing of peace, bellowed like a fog-horn and beat upon the table with both hands.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

'When a cat has been out on the tiles all night,' said the Nilghai, in his beard, 'I notice that she usually sleeps all day.

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