The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

queens used to enter. But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery— beautiful milk-white fretwork, ...

There was a howl of fright and rage, and then as Bagheera tripped on the rolling kicking bodies beneath him, ...

summerhouse was alive with cobras). “Stand still, Little Brother, for thy feet may do us harm.” Mowgli stood ...

birds for miles round. Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill. The fighting strength of ...

Generations of monkeys had been scared into good behavior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, ...

“I—I may have cried out in the battle,” Bagheera answered. “Baloo, art thou hurt? “I am not sure that t ...

“All thanks, Little Brother,” said Kaa, though his eyes twinkled. “And what may so bold a hunter kil ...

Mowgli laid his hands on Baloo and Bagheera to get them away, and the two great beasts started as though ...

Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have ...

Road-Song of the Bandar-Log Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the ...

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“Tiger! Tiger!” What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch w ...

and legs. They are the bites of wolves. He is but a wolf-child run away from the jungle.” Of course, in pla ...

It was not for fun that he had learned while he was with the wolves to imitate the challenge of bucks in the ...

will always remember that I have been cast out of the Pack.” “And that thou mayest be cast o ...

and the wild pig grubbed up their crops, and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight ...

“Are all these tales such cobwebs and moon talk?” said Mowgli. “That tiger limps because he was born la ...

“It is an order,” said Mowgli. “I am a village herd for a while. What news of Shere Khan?” “He has come ...

At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buff ...

track so that they may smell it?” “He swam far down the Waingunga to cut that off,” said Gray Bro ...