Enrique Chaves-CarballoKansas City, Kansas, United States Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.—Rudyard Kipling, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” The…