. The jungle book. and grand and good,Won by merely wishing we could. Now were going to — never mind,Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird — Hide or fin or scale or feather — Jabber it quickly and all together ! Excellent! Wonderful! Once again ! Now we are talking just like men. Let s pretend we are . . never mind,Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!This is the way of the Monkey-kind. Then join our leaping lines that scnmfish through the pines,That rocket by where, light and high, the wild-grape the rubbish in our wake,
. The jungle book. and grand and good,Won by merely wishing we could. Now were going to — never mind,Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird — Hide or fin or scale or feather — Jabber it quickly and all together ! Excellent! Wonderful! Once again ! Now we are talking just like men. Let s pretend we are . . never mind,Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!This is the way of the Monkey-kind. Then join our leaping lines that scnmfish through the pines,That rocket by where, light and high, the wild-grape the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,Be sure, be sure, we re going to do some splendid things I TIGER! TIGER! What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and of the quarry ye went to kill ? Brother, he crops in the jungle stillWhere is the power that made your pride; Brother, it ebbs from my flank and is the haste that ye hurry by ? Brother, I go to my lair— to die. J^LcNV- ,. -TIGER! TIGER! NOW we must go back to the last tale butone. When Mowgli left the wolfs caveafter the fight with the Pack at the CouncilRock, he went down to the plowed lands wherethe villagers lived, but he would not stop therebecause it was too near to the jungle, and heknew that he had made at least one bad enemyat the Council. So he hurried on, keeping to therough road that ran down the valley, and followedit at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles,till he came to a country that he did not valley opened out into a great plain dotted 94 THE JUNGLE BOOK over with rocks and cut up by ravines. At oneend stood a little village, and at the other thethick jungle came down in a sweep to the graz-ing-grounds, and stopped there as though it hadbeen cut off with a hoe. All over the plain, cattleand buffaloes were grazing, and when the littleboys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli theyshouted and ran away, and the yellow pariahdogs that hang about every Indian vil
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