Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 5

His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink.

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!”

“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.

The valiant Rikki-tikki caught him by the head and held fast.

Well! It may be some consolation to you when you’re dead to know that I shall settle accounts with the boy.

The insidious revolt led by Buck had destroyed the solidarity of the team. It no longer was as one dog leaping in the traces.

The encouragement Buck gave the rebels led them into all kinds of petty misdemeanors.

And even Billee, the good-natured, was less good-natured, and whined not half so placatingly as in former days.

He worked faithfully in the harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates and tangle the traces.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.