Then I heard a sound of hissing like four big kettles boiling all at once, and a little bleat from the goat.
After this there was a noise as of men wrestling, followed by another noise as of bones breaking, and lastly, yet another sucking noise as of a pump that won't draw up the water.

Then everything grew nice and quiet and I went some way off, sat down a little to one side of the cave, and waited to see if anything happened.
"It must have been nearly an hour later that something did begin to happen, Baas.

It was as though sacks filled with chaff were being beaten against stone walls there in the cave.

Ah! thought I to myself, your stomach is beginning to ache, Eater-up-of-Bena, and, as that goat had little horns on its head--to which I tied two of the bags of the poison, Baas--and, like all snakes, no doubt you have spikes in your throat pointing downwards, you won't be able to get it up again.

Then--I expect this was after the poison-sugar had begun to melt nicely in the serpent's stomach, Baas--there was a noise as though a whole company of girls were dancing a war-dance in the cave to a music of hisses.
"And then--oh! then, Baas, of a sudden that Father of Serpents came out.
I tell you, Baas, that when I saw him in the bright starlight my hair stood up upon my head, for never has there been such another snake in the whole world.