Anna wrote a thesis stating that both the mongoose character in "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and the young author of "Snakes Alive!" demonstrate a special knowledge of snakes that each gains as a result on unusual curiosity. What textual evidence would support Anna's claim?
Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
Every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in.
The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out"; and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
"Good gracious," said Teddy's mother, "and that's a wild creature! I suppose he's so tame because we've been kind to him."