. The jungle book. ver had the courage of a jackal is childs talk. Buldeo was speechless with surprise for a mo-ment, and the head-man stared. Oho ! It is the jungle brat, is it ? said Bul-deo. If thou art so wise, better bring his hideto Khanhiwara, for the Government has set ahundred rupees [$30] on his life. Better still, donot talk when thy elders speak. Mowgli rose to go. All the evening I havelain here listening, he called back over his shoul-der, and, except once or twice, Buldeo has notsaid one word of truth concerning the jungle,which is at his very doors. How, then, shall Ibelieve th
. The jungle book. ver had the courage of a jackal is childs talk. Buldeo was speechless with surprise for a mo-ment, and the head-man stared. Oho ! It is the jungle brat, is it ? said Bul-deo. If thou art so wise, better bring his hideto Khanhiwara, for the Government has set ahundred rupees [$30] on his life. Better still, donot talk when thy elders speak. Mowgli rose to go. All the evening I havelain here listening, he called back over his shoul-der, and, except once or twice, Buldeo has notsaid one word of truth concerning the jungle,which is at his very doors. How, then, shall Ibelieve the tales of ghosts and gods and goblinswhich he says he has seen ? It is full time that boy went to herding,said the head-man, while Buldeo puffed andsnorted at Mowglis impertinence. The custom of most Indian villages is for a fewboys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to grazein the early morning, and bring them back atnight; and the very cattle that would trample awhite man to death allow themselves to be banged. TIGER! TIGER! 107 and bullied and shouted at by children that hard-ly come up to their noses. So long as the boyskeep with the herds they are safe, for not eventhe tiger will charge a mob of cattle. But if theystraggle to pick flowers or hunt lizards, they aresometimes carried off. Mowgli went through thevillage street in the dawn, sitting on the back ofRama, the great herd bull; and the slaty-bluebuffaloes, with their long, backward-sweepinghorns and savage eyes, rose out of their byres,one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli madeit very clear to the children with him that he wasthe master. He beat the buffaloes with a long,polished bamboo, and told Kamya, one of theboys, to graze the cattle by themselves, while hewent on with the buffaloes, and to be very care-ful not to stray away from the herd. An Indian grazing-ground is all rocks andscrub and tussocks and little ravines, amongwhich the herds scatter and disappear. Thebuffaloes generally keep to the pools and
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