The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Chapter 11 Page 14

Else why should he go hunting these wild devils? He may even require thee to be an elephant catcher, to sleep anywhere in these fever-filled jungles, and at last to be trampled to death in the Keddah. It is well that this nonsense ends safely. Next week the catching is over, and we of the plains are sent back to our stations. Then we will march on smooth roads, and forget all this hunting. But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk. Kala Nag will obey none but me, so I must go with him into the Keddah, but he is only a fighting elephant, and he does not help to rope them.

So I sit at my ease, as befits a mahout, — not a mere hunter, — a mahout, I say, and a man who gets a pension at the end of his service. Is the family of Toomai of the