THE COLLECTED WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING (Illustrated). Rudyard 1865-1936 Kipling

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       Rudyard Kipling

      The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

      The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed

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      Table of Contents

       The Jungle Book

       The Second Jungle Book

       Just So Stories

       Kim

       The Light That Failed

       Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks

       Plain Tales From the Hills

       The Man Who Would Be King

      The Jungle Book

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       The Jungle Book

       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 Chaunt

       Toomai of the Elephants

       Shiv and the Grasshopper

       Her Majesty's Servants

       Parade-Song of the Camp Animals

      The Jungle Book

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      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.

Mowgli's Brothers

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      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 the 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"; and he was going to spring downhill 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 the noble children, that they may never forget the hungry in this world."

      

"'GOOD LUCK GO WITH YOU, O CHIEF OF THE WOLVES.'"

      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. They are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than any one else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of any one, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee—the madness—and run.

      "Enter, then, and look," said Father Wolf, stiffly; "but there is no food here."

      "For a wolf, no," said Tabaqui; "but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the Jackal People], to pick and choose?" He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.

      "All thanks for this good meal," he said, licking his lips. "How beautiful are the noble children! How large are their eyes! And so young too! Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning."

      Now, Tabaqui knew as well as any one else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces; and it pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable.

      Tabaqui sat still, rejoicing in the mischief that he had made, and then he said spitefully:

      "Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting-grounds. He will hunt among these hills during the next moon, so he has told me."