The First Jungle Story the Night of the Full Moon, Through the Jungle to the Council Circle
The First Jungle Story the night of the full moon, through the jungle to the Council Circle. There the wolves looked over the young Cubs so they It was a warm summer night would know them if they met them in the jungle. when Tabaqui, The Jackal, the mean sly mischief-maker, crept Then Shere Khan roared from the trees, “What to the cave of Mother and have the Free People to do with a Man Cub in Father Wolf. “Shere Khan, the the Pack?” big one, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among AKELA Akela, the Pack Leader, reminded the Wolves these hills,” he told them. LEADER OF THE PACK that if there was an argument about a Cub, two others would have to speak for him. Father Wolf was upset, because Shere Khan, the tiger, killed cattle and angered the villages, bringing trouble to the jungle. But as they So Baloo, the brown bear, stood up and said, listened, they heard the angry, snarly whine of the tiger. “He is “I will speak for the Man Cub. hunting man!” said Mother Wolf. “Listen, something is coming!” I will teach him the Laws of” the Jungle, just as I teach all Father Wolf crouched, then halted in mid-spring. “Man!” he BALOO T EACHER OF THE the other Cubs.” snapped, “a man’s cub. Look!” His jaws closed gently over the JUNGLE LAWS little boy’s back and he carried him into the cave and placed him And a black shadow dropped from the trees. It was the mighty amongst the other cubs.
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