So she waded out as far as she could, and
caught hold of the bush and pulled it in, and the poor Mongoose crawled
up her arm on to her shoulder, and she carried him to shore.
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When they got to shore the Mongoose shook himself, and Little Black
Mingo wrung out her petticoat, and so they both very soon got dry.
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The Mongoose then began to poke about for something to eat, and very
soon he found the great big pile of Mugger's eggs. "Oh, joy!" said
he, "what's this?"
"Those are Mugger's eggs," said Little Black Mingo.
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"I'm not afraid of Muggers!" said the Mongoose; and he sat down and
began to crack the eggs, and eat the little muggers as they came out.
And he threw the shells into the water, so that the old Mugger should
not see that any one had been eating them. But he was careless, and he
left one eggshell on the edge, and he was hungry and he ate so many that
the pile got much smaller, and when the old Mugger came back he saw at
once that some one had been meddling with them.
So he ran to Little Black Mingo, and said, "How dare you eat my eggs?"
"Indeed, indeed I didn't," said Little Black Mingo.
"Then who could it have been?" said the Mugger, and he ran back to
the eggs as fast as he could, and sure enough when he got back he found
the Mongoose had eaten a whole lot more!!
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Then he said to himself, "I must stay beside my eggs till they are
hatched into little muggers, or the Mongoose will eat them all.
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