. The jungle book. n the village and the jungle. Why ?I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy. My mouth is cut and wounded with the stones from the village, but my heart is very light because I have come back to the jungle. Why?These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes ; yet I laugh while it falls. Why ?I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my the jungle knows that I have killed Shere Khan. Look — look well, O Wolves !Ahae! My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand. THE
. The jungle book. n the village and the jungle. Why ?I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy. My mouth is cut and wounded with the stones from the village, but my heart is very light because I have come back to the jungle. Why?These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes ; yet I laugh while it falls. Why ?I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my the jungle knows that I have killed Shere Khan. Look — look well, O Wolves !Ahae! My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand. THE WHITE SEAL Oh ! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so moon, oer the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas. Seal Lullaby. THE WHITE SEAL A LL these things happened several years agojLJL at a place called Novastoshnah, or NorthEast Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away andaway in the Bering Sea. Limmershin, the Win-ter Wren, told me the tale when he was blown onto the rigging of a steamer going to Japan, and Itook him down into my cabin and warmed and fedhim for a couple of days till he was fit to fly backto St. Pauls again. Limmershin is a very oddlittle bird, but he knows how to tell the comes to Novastoshnah except onbusiness, and the only people who have regular «37 138 THE JUNGLE BOOK business there are the seals. They come in thesummer months by hundreds and hundreds ofthousands out of the cold gray sea; for Novas-toshnah Beach has the finest accommodation forseals of any place in all the world. Sea Catch knew that, and every spring wouldswim from whatever place he happened to be in—would swim like a torpedo-boat straight forNovastoshnah, and spend a month fightin
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