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By Express News ServiceBENGALURU : This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single- handed, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. 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. He found a little wisp of grass floating there, and clung to it till he lost his senses. Let’s have a funeral.’‘No,’ said his mother; ‘let’s take him in and dry him. The motto of all the mongoose family is ‘Run and find out,’ and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose..