The document summarizes the short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling. It provides background on Kipling and an overview of the plot, which follows a young mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi who is taken in by an English family in India and protects them from deadly snakes in the garden. It also includes character descriptions, the setting, vocabulary words from the story, discussion questions, and bibliographic sources.