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afraid Akela angry Bagheera Baloo Bandar-log beaches beast began Big Toomai Billy branches buffaloes Buldeo bullocks bulls called camel camp Chuchundra cobra Council Rock dance dark Darzee Darzee's dead eggs elephants eyes Father Wolf feet fight flippers grass Gray Brother grunted guns head heard herd hills holluschickie hunt jumped jungle Kala Nag Karait Keddah Kerick Khan's kill knew Kotick legs Little Brother Little Toomai looked Lukannon Machua Appa man-cub man's cub Matkah Messua miles mongoose monkeys moon Mowgli mule Nag's Nagaina neck never night Novastoshnah Pack Panther paws Petersen Sahib ravine Rikki Rikki-tikki round RUDYARD KIPLING Sea Catch Sea Cow Shere Khan shoulders shouted side skin snake song Tabaqui tail talk Teddy Teddy's mother teeth thee things thou art tiger tikki told trees troop-horse village Waingunga white seal wild elephants wolves young
Popular passages
Page 91 - Here we sit in a branchy row. Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two — Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could.
Page 138 - Oh ! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow; Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
Page 73 - King's garden, where they would shake the rose-trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall. They explored all the passages and dark tunnels in the palace, and the hundreds of little dark rooms, but they never remembered what they had seen and what they had not, and so drifted about in ones and twos or crowds, telling one another that they were doing as men did — or shouting "there are none in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Bandar-log.
Page 76 - Sore, sleepy, and hungry as he was, Mowgli could not help laughing when the Bandar-log began, twenty at a time, to tell him how great and wise and strong and gentle they were, and how foolish he was to wish to leave them. 'We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the Jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true,
Page 87 - The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged, shaky fringes of things. Baloo went down to the tank for a drink, and Bagheera began to put his fur in order, as Kaa glided out into the centre of the terrace and brought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew all the monkeys' eyes upon him. "The moon sets,
Page 273 - I was getting ready to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears. He belonged to a screw-gun battery, for I could hear the rattle of the straps and rings and chains and things on his saddle-pad. The screw-guns are tiny little cannon made in two pieces that are screwed together when the time comes to use them. They are taken up mountains, anywhere that a mule can find a road, and they are very useful for fighting in rocky country.
Page 200 - ... of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked. He was dizzy, aching, and felt shaken to pieces when something went off like a thunderclap just behind him; a hot wind knocked him senseless, and red fire singed his fur. The big man had been wakened by the noise, and had fired both barrels of a shotgun into Nag just behind the hood.
Page 207 - The big snake turned half round, and saw the egg on the veranda. "Ah-h! Give it to me," she said. Rikki-tikki put his paws one on each side of the egg, and his eyes were blood-red. "What price for a snake's egg? For a young cobra? For a young king-cobra? For the last — the very last of the brood ? The ants are eating all the others down by the melon-bed.
Page 86 - Well said," growled Baloo, for Mowgli had returned thanks very prettily. The python dropped his head lightly for a minute on Mowgli's shoulder. " A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets, and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
Page 249 - Then the branches closed over his head again, and Kala Nag began to go down into the valley — not quietly this time, but as a runaway gun goes down a steep bank — in one rush. The huge limbs moved as steadily as pistons, eight feet to each stride, and the wrinkled skin of the elbow-points rustled. The undergrowth on either side of him ripped with a noise like torn canvas, and the saplings that he heaved away right and left with his shoulders sprang back again, and banged him on the flank, and...