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  THE JUNGLE BOOK

  Rudyard Kipling]

  "LITTLE TOOMAI LAID HIMSELF DOWN CLOSE TO THE GREAT NECKLEST A SWINGING BOUGH SHOULD SWEEP HIM TO THE GROUND." (SEE PAGE 246.)]

  THE JUNGLE BOOK

  BY RUDYARD KIPLING

 

  NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1910

  Copyright 1893, 1894, by RUDYARD KIPLING Copyright, 1894, by HARPER and BROTHERS Copyright 1893, 1894, by THE CENTURY CO.

  CONTENTS

  PAGE

  MOWGLI'S BROTHERS 1

  HUNTING-SONG OF THE SEEONEE PACK 42

  KAA'S HUNTING 47

  ROAD-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

  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 THUNDER" 11

  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 MINUTE TO SEE MOWGLI TURN INTO A TIGER, TOO" 121

  "WHEN THE MOON ROSE OVER THE PLAIN THE VILLAGERS SAW MOWGLI TROTTING ACROSS, WITH TWO WOLVES AT HIS HEELS" 126

  "THEY CLAMBERED UP ON THE COUNCIL ROCK TOGETHER, AND MOWGLI SPREAD THE SKIN OUT ON THE FLAT STONE" 129

  "TEN FATHOMS DEEP" 146

  "THEY WERE ALL AWAKE AND STARING IN EVERY DIRECTION BUT THE RIGHT ONE" 154

  "HE HAD FOUND SEA COW AT LAST" 162

  "RIKKI-TIKKI LOOKED DOWN BETWEEN THE BOY'S COLLAR 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 SHOULDER" 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

  "'HE IS AFRAID OF ME,' SAID LITTLE TOOMAI, AND HE 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,--MELONS,' SAID LITTLE TOOMAI" 235

  "LITTLE TOOMAI LOOKED DOWN UPON SCORES AND SCORES OF BROAD BACKS" 251

  "'TO TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS. BARRAO!'" 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 CENTRAL ASIAN CHIEF ASKING QUESTIONS OF A NATIVE OFFICER" 297

  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._