The Taming of the Jungle

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Doyle Charles William. The Taming of the Jungle

Preface

CHAPTER I. A Jungle Vendetta

CHAPTER II. Hasteen

CHAPTER III. The Hunting of Cheeta Dutt

CHAPTER IV. The Spoiling of Nyagong

CHAPTER V. The Woman in the Carriage

CHAPTER VI. For the Training of Biroo

CHAPTER VII. Chandni

CHAPTER VIII. One Thousand Rupees Reward

CHAPTER IX. The Rope that Hanged Bijoo

CHAPTER X. Cœlum, Non Animum Mutant

CHAPTER XI. The Lame Tiger of Huldwani

CHAPTER XII. How Nandha was Avenged

CHAPTER XIII. An Affront to Gannesha

CHAPTER XIV. A Daughter of the Gods

CHAPTER XV "Ich Liebe Dich"

CHAPTER XVI. The Smoking of a Hornets' Nest

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"This was the way of it," said Ram Deen to a circle of listeners sitting round a fire by the side of the jungle road near Lal Kooah. Ram Deen drove the mail-cart in its final stage to Kaladoongie, and with his relay of fresh horses was awaiting the arrival of the mail. He was, next to the Assistant Superintendent of the Forest Department of the District, a power on the road, and his audience, accordingly, listened to him with due respect. "This was the way of it: I owed Bheem Dass one rupee and six annas for flour and pulse and ghee, and my donkey fell sick, so that he could not be forced by goad, nor by the lighting of a fire beneath him, to rise; and I could not convey my earthenware to Moradabad and sell it, and so remove the galling of Bheem Dass's tongue.

"Then the Thanadar came, and read script to me that was written on government paper, whereof I understood but little, save that the words were Urdu, and sounded very terrible to me, who speak Gamari only, and am a poor man. And he took my potter's wheel from me, and bade his chuprassi beat me then, and daily thereafter at noon – twelve strokes each day – till I made restitution to Bheem Dass.

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"Hastening campwards by a path that skirted the other side of the glade, I came across the sahib's dog. It was shorn in twain by the stroke of a khookri, and I knew that Cheeta Dutt, The Leopard, was a-hunting.

"'What shikar?' asked I of Bonner Sahib when he returned to his tent.

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