The Jungle Book Books by Rudyard Kipling
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They Traffics and Discoveries Under the Deodars, The Phantom ’Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie With the Night Mail -W* ■. * 1' « , ':'- r» ^ .;•■ • \'V;, '...- 'K Bb T . Jf Vkji 11 -j^ •^ * .Vj*. u ’ ^ * ' fc -* !■♦ *-'V H * L ' * • .^-JiPPPW» * • #1 ^ H » . » w '\ I J . ’^^1. - I'U*", iP’ * jdf} ■’’ ', *1j^' '‘ I' ' ii?i ^•V 4* . • ' ' -* 4 &■: ^ 51 "LITTLE TOOMAI LAID HIMSELF DOWN CLOSE TO THE GREAT NECK, LEST A SWINGING BOUGH SHOULD SWEKP THE GROUND.” (SEE PAGE 246. The Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY COMPANY FOR REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. 1914 Copyright 1893, 1894, by Rudyard Kipling Copyright, 1894, by Harper and Brothers Copyright 1893, 1894.. by The Century Co, CONTENTS PACK Mowgli’s Brothers . i Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack. 42 Kaa’s Hunting.. 47 POAD-SONG OF THE BaNDAR-LOG. 89 Tiger ! Tiger ! ”. 93 Mowgli’s Song.131 The White Seal.137 Lukannon.170 Rikki-tikki-tavi ”.175 Darzee’s Chaunt.212 Toomai of the Elephants .217 Shiv and the Grasshopper.261 Her Majesty’s Servants.265 Parade-Song of the Camp Animals.300 " .If .\ ^rsi.vy \ • ' ' ' fel ‘>_,. |3»Mpqym ifeTii'.' ■ f . *' ^ -v •, * Y;. :'.; I V', • I .‘ . T t 4r. > t • .1 7. «-i , t ,' m/:S\JU^ i '*1, * •v » iJOFj* V .'I '■*^ . ';•,. .vviiV'^i •- • ^ u =*• -’i‘' *-n\» >t • ■"'■■*''^*»J5'. ' , .-' I ■'. • ■ ':■ < V . .Vi ,,. , tJA il* ^ •. kfc Va^'.Y- ^ V LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE “ Little Toomai laid himself down close to the GREAT Neck, lest a swinging Bough should SWEEP him to the Ground”.Frontispiece “ ‘ Good Luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves ’ ”. 5 “ The Tiger’s Roar filled the Cave with Thun¬ der” . II The Meeting at the Council Rock. 17 “ Bagheera would lie out on a Branch and call, ‘ Come along. Little Brother ’ ”. 23 ‘‘‘Wake, Little Brother; I bring News’” ... 99 “ ‘ Are all these Tales such Cobwebs and Moon- Talk?’ said Mowgli ”.105 “ Buldeo lay as still as still, expecting every Min¬ ute TO SEE Mowgli turn into a Tiger, too” 12i “ When the Moon rose over the Plain the Vil¬ lagers SAW Mowgli trotting across, with two Wolves at his Heels”.126 *‘ They clambered up on the Council Rock to¬ gether, AND Mowgli spread the Skin out on the flat Stone”.129 Xll LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Ten Fathoms Deep”.. 146 “ They were all awake and staring in every Di¬ rection BUT THE RIGHT ONE ”.154 “He had found Sea Cow at last”.162 “ Rikki-tikki looked down between the Boy’s Col¬ lar AND Neck”.177 “He put his Nose into the Ink”.178 “Rikki-tikki was awake on the Pillow” .... 179 “ He came to Breakfast riding on Teddy’s Shoul¬ der” .180 “‘We are very miserable,’ said Darzee” .... 181 “ ‘ I AM Nag,’ said the Cobra : ‘ Look, and be afraid.* But at the Bottom of his cold Heart he was afraid” .183 “ He jumped up in the Air, and just under him WHIZZED BY THE HeAD OF NaGAINA”.187 “ In THE Dark he ran up against Chuchundra, THE Muskrat”.192 “ Then Rikki-tikki was battered to and fro as A Rat is shaken by a Dog”.197 Darzee’s Wife pretends to have a broken Wing . 201 “ Nagaina flew down the Path with Rikki-tikki behind her”.207 “It is all over”.210 “ Kala Nag was the best-loved Elephant in the Service ” 219 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiu PAGE ‘ He is afraid of me/ said Little ^^oomai, and KE made Kala Nag lift up his Feet one AFTER THE OTHER ”. 223 “ He would get his Torch and wave it, and yell WITH THE Best ”. 229 “‘Not GREEN Corn, Protector of the Poor,—Mel¬ ons/ SAID Little Toomai ”. 235 “ Little Toomai looked down upon Scores and Scores of broad Backs” . 251 Toomai of the Elephants. Barraoi’” . “‘To 259 “ A Camel had blundered into my Tent ” . 267 “ ‘ Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the Night/SAID the Troop-horse ”. 275 “ ‘ The Man was lying on the Ground, and I stretched myself not to tread on him, and HE SLASHED UP AT ME * ” . 279 “ Then I heard an old, grizzled, long-haired Cen¬ tral Asian Chief asking Questions of a native Officer *’. 297 ( Vj « - 1 s^-j,x-vi:v?iL - } ft t I ^ ■> * ’'-^^4*'£ I ' * ■ ) .^ * * I !v .■^f *.1 .^j M '(f ). '■•fi ■'■ ' F* *7’ ' “ I h. fH i;hf A I A ¥r ! I «tiP ^ . * T» i^fc- ^ ^ I ■ t,; *. ~' .V ii‘ S ’-(165 • A, ' f A ■'"• ».'f0’ ’ ‘YJ' ’• ^ ■ I '• * V 4 ^ • i’fA' i • ' 'v ■' ^ 4 ^ • f « T' J * f >▼ ,»•*■» »# /» ■ *fii‘ -hJ'>:. Av O' f/K- THE JUNGLE BOOK Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free — The herds are shut in byre and hut. For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power. Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law ! Night-Song in the Jungle. MOWGLI’S BROTHERS 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 down¬ hill 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, I I 2 THE JUNGLE BOOK 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 dewariee — the madness — and run. “ Enter, then, and look,” said Father Wolf, stiffly; “but there is no food here.” “For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui; “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the Jackal People], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily. “ All thanks for this good meal,” he said, lick¬ ing his lips. “ How beautiful are the noble chil- MOWGLrS BROTHERS 3 dren ! How large are their eyes ! And so young too! Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.” Now, Tabaqui knew as well as any one else that there is nothing so unlucky as to com¬ pliment children to their faces; and it pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look un¬ comfortable. Tabaqui sat still, rejoicing in the mischief that he had made, and then he said spitefully: “ Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting-grounds. He will hunt among these hills during the next moon, so he has told me.” Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.