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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi from The Jungle Book Philosophical Viewpoints: Postcolonialism Quotes

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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 bit, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls (111)

Rikki-tikki for the win. He successfully beats back the advance of India's nature and guards those the walls set up by the British family help keep it out.