The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

“You don’t know when to do the right thing at the right time. You’re safe enough in your ne ...

She fluttered in front of Nagaina by the rubbish heap and cried out, “Oh, my wing is broken! The boy in t ...

Teddy’s eyes were fixed on his father, and all his father could do was to whisper, “Sit still, Teddy. You m ...

Rikki-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keeping just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like ...

Rikki-tikki knew that he must catch her, or all the trouble would begin again. She headed straight for t ...

The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; ...

Darzee’s Chant (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi) Singer and tailor am I— ...

Toomai of the Elephants I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain— ...

After that he was taken off timber-hauling, and employed, with a few score other elephants who were t ...

“Yes,” said Big Toomai, his driver, the son of Black Toomai who had taken him to Abyssinia, and grandson of Toomai ...

He knew what he was talking of; for he had been born under Kala Nag’s shadow, had played with the end of ...

am getting old, and I do not love wild elephants. Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each e ...

young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals). Kala Nag saw him, caught him in ...

Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pudmini; he had been paying off other camps am ...

“Not green corn, Protector of the Poor,—melons,” said Little Toomai, and all the men sitting about broke into ...

“Must I never go there, Sahib?” asked Little Toomai with a big gasp. “Yes.” Petersen Sahib smiled again ...

all the wild elephants to-night will—but why should I waste wisdom on a river- turtle?” “What will they ...

verse says: Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, Sitting at the doorways of a day of long ...

you, O Kala Nag!” The elephant turned, without a sound, took three strides back to the boy in the moonlig ...

The grass began to get squashy, and Kala Nag’s feet sucked and squelched as he put them down, and the n ...