`` Now , '' he said , when he awoke , `` I will go back to the house . Tell the Coppersmith , Darzee , and he will tell the garden that Nagaina is dead . '' The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot ; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden , and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen . As Rikki-tikki went up the path , he heard his `` attention '' notes like a tiny dinner gong , and then the steady `` Ding-dong-tock ! Nag is dead -- dong ! Nagaina is dead ! Ding-dong-tock ! '' That set all the birds in the garden singing , and the frogs croaking , for Nag and Nagaina used to eat frogs as well as little birds . When Rikki got to the house , Teddy and Teddy 's mother -LRB- she looked very white still , for she had been fainting -RRB- and Teddy 's father came out and almost cried over him ; and that night he ate all that was given him till he could eat no more , and went to bed on Teddy 's shoulder , where Teddy 's mother saw him when she came to look late at night . `` He saved our lives and Teddy 's life , '' she said to her husband . `` Just think , he saved all our lives . '' Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump , for the mongooses are light sleepers . `` Oh , it 's you , '' said he . `` What are you bothering for ? All the cobras are dead . And if they were n't , I 'm here . '' Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself . But he did not grow too proud , and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it , with tooth and jump and spring and bite , till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls . Darzee 's Chant -LRB- Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi -RRB- Singer and tailor am I -- Doubled the joys that I know -- Proud of my lilt to the sky , Proud of the house that I sew -- Over and under , so weave I my music -- so weave I the house that I sew . Sing to your fledglings again , Mother , oh lift up your head !
Evil that plagued us is slain , Death in the XXXXX lies dead .
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