. The jungle book. gle for him whenhe is far away, and we and our children must runwhen the grass is set alight. Indeed, we arevery grateful to Shere Khan ! Shall I tell him of your gratitude? saidTabaqui. Out! snapped Father Wolf. Out, andhunt with thy master. Thou hast done harmenough for one night. I go, said Tabaqui, quietly. Ye can hearShere Khan below in the thickets. I might havesaved myself the message. Father Wolf listened, and in the dark valleythat ran down to a little river, he heard the dry,angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who hascaught nothing and does not care if all the
. The jungle book. gle for him whenhe is far away, and we and our children must runwhen the grass is set alight. Indeed, we arevery grateful to Shere Khan ! Shall I tell him of your gratitude? saidTabaqui. Out! snapped Father Wolf. Out, andhunt with thy master. Thou hast done harmenough for one night. I go, said Tabaqui, quietly. Ye can hearShere Khan below in the thickets. I might havesaved myself the message. Father Wolf listened, and in the dark valleythat ran down to a little river, he heard the dry,angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who hascaught nothing and does not care if all the jungleknows it. The fool! said Father Wolf. To begin anights work with that noise! Does he thinkthat our buck are like his fat Waingunga bul-locks ? Hsh ! It is neither bullock nor buck that hehunts to-night, said Mother Wolf; it is Mai .The whine had changed to a sort of hummingpurr that seemed to roll from every quarter ofthe compass. It was the noise that bewilderswood-cutters, and gipsies sleeping in the open,. MOWGLIS BROTHERS 7 and makes them run sometimes into the verymouth of the tig-en Man! said Father Wolf, showing all hiswhite teeth. Faugh! Are there not enoughbeetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eatMan — and on our ground too ! The Law of the Jungle, which never ordersanything without a reason, forbids every beast toeat Man except when he is killing to show hischildren how to kill, and then he must hunt out-side the hunting-grounds of his pack or real reason for this is that man-killingmeans, sooner or later, the arrival of white menon elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brownmen with gongs and rockets and torches. Theneverybody in the jungle suffers. The reason thebeasts give among themselves is that Man is theweakest and most defenseless of all living things,and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. Theysay too — and it is true — that man-eaters be-come mangy, and lose their teeth. The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated Aaarh
Size: 1277px × 1958px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., jackal, motherwolf, mowglisbrothers, raksha, tabaqui, wolf, wolfcub
