When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth

When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth embroidered with gold on your sides, and walk at the head of the King's processions. Then, sitting on your neck, O Kala Nag, I shall drive you with a silver ankus and watch the people with golden staves run before us, crying: "Make way for the King's elephant." That will be fine, Kala Nag, yet not so fine as hunting in the jungle.

"The Jungle Book", "Toomai of the Elephants", the boy's conversation with the elephant

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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