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Explanation:
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- Darzee and his wife; who are tailor-birds
- Nag; was a big, black venomous snake; specifically a cobra
- Rikki-tikki was a mongoose, a type of animal that feeds on the flesh of other animals especially snakes
Darzee and wife who were tailor-birds were greatly afraid of Nag, who was a cobra, a venomous snake. Nag believed that he was the king of the jungle. He went about inflicting fear in other animals that lived in the jungle where he was located.
Furthermore, one of Darzee's babies had mistakenly fallen from the nest the previous day and Nag had eaten him up. This made them very sad and miserable at the death of their baby. And they feared Nag the more.
Hence Darzee and his wife greatly cowered from Nag because they were afraid of what he could do to them. That is Nag could kill and eat them up.
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Good clear answers and obviously more knowledgeable than me, but i would like to add that when I taught English as a foreign language I would, once students had achieved a sufficient level, have introduced the idea of two types of English side-by-side, one of a perhaps more ‘educated’ and certainly more Latinate, and another more ‘homely’ which echoes the more Anglo-Saxon tradition, so regal/kingly, maternal/motherly. I have come across translations from other languages that are clearly from one tradition and from the other, and if a choice is to be made I far prefer the Anglo-Saxon, even though it’s not so posh.
And yes, I did encourage students to be Anglo-Saxons.
I could also add that I have a notion that Norman children were brought up very largely by Anglo-Saxon servants, and when they wandered into the kitchens looking for something to eat they would have used the language. By the time the courtier Geoffrey Chaucer was writing I’m sure Normans were cheerfully bilingual and getting to like English.
Explanation:
He could not convince the Union army. He did not find it completely necessary.
