The Jungle Book

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Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

MOWGLI’S BROTHERS

HUNTING-SONG OF THE SEEONEE PACK

KAA’S HUNTING

KAA’S HUNTING

ROAD-SONG OF THE BANDAR-LOG

“TIGER! TIGER!”

“TIGER! TIGER!”

MOWGLI’S SONG. THAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE

THE WHITE SEAL

THE WHITE SEAL

LUKANNON

“RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI”

“RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI”

TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS

TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS

HER MAJESTY’S SERVANTS

HER MAJESTY’S SERVANTS

GUN-BULLOCKS

CAVALRY HORSES

SCREW-GUN MULES

COMMISSARIAT CAMELS

ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER

The Second Jungle Book

OW FEAR CAME

HOW FEAR CAME

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT

THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT

A SONG OF KABIR

LETTING IN THE JUNGLE

LETTING IN THE JUNGLE

MOWGLI’S SONG AGAINST PEOPLE

THE UNDERTAKERS

THE UNDERTAKERS

A RIPPLE SONG

THE KING’S ANKUS

THE KING’S ANKUS

THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER

QUIQUERN

QUIQUERN

“ANGUTIVUN TINA”

RED DOG

RED DOG

CHIL’S SONG

THE SPRING RUNNING

THE SPRING RUNNING

THE OUTSONG

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IT was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in the tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. “Augrh!” said Father Wolf, “it is time to hunt again”; and he was going to spring downhill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves; and good luck and strong white teeth go with the noble children, that they may never forget the hungry in this world.”

It was the jackal – Tabaqui, the Dish-licker – and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. They are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than any one else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of any one, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee – the madness – and run.

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“Worm – earthworm, and yellow to boot.”

“All one. Let us go on,” and Kaa seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with his steady eyes, and keeping to it.

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