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The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Public domain text from Project Gutenberg. THE JUNGLE BOOK By Rudyard Kipling Contents Mowgli s Brothers Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Kaa s Hunting Road-Song of the Bandar-Log Tiger! Tiger! Mowgli s Song The White Seal Lukannon Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Darzee s Chant Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper Her Majesty s Servants Parade Song of the Camp Animals Mowgli s Brothers 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. 1 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_ 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 their 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. 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 noble children 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. But they are afraid of him too, because Tab…

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