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Title: The jungle book
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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nd a wolf stole back—and a wolf stole backTo carry the word to the waiting Pack;And we sought and we found and we bayed on his track Once, twice, and again ! As the dawn was breaking the Wolf-pack yelled Once, twice, and again!Feet in the jungle that leave no mark !Eyes that can see in the dark—the dark!Tongue—give tongue to it! Hark! O Hark! Once, twice, and again ! KAAS HUNTING His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalos pride—Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide. If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore;Ye need not stop work to inform us; we knew it ten seasons before. Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother. There is none like to me! says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill; But the Jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still. Mamxis of Baloo.
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KAAS HUNTING ALL that is told here happened some timeJT\. before Mowgli was turned out of the See-onee wolf-pack. It was in the days when Baloowas teaching him the Law of the Jungle. Thebig, serious, old brown bear was delighted tohave so quick a pupil, for the young wolves willonly learn as much of the Law of the Jungle asapplies to their own pack and tribe, and run awayas soon as they can repeat the Hunting Verse:i( Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see inthe dark; ears that can hear the winds in theirlairs, and sharp white teeth— all these things are 48 THE JUNGLE BOOK the marks of our brothers except Tabaqui andthe Hyena, whom we hate. But Mowgli, as aman-cub, had to learn a great deal more thanthis. Sometimes Bagheera, the Black Panther,would come lounging through the jungle to seehow his pet was getting on, and would purr withhis head against a tree while Mowgli recited thedays lesson to Baloo. The boy could climbalmost as well as he could swim, and swimalmost as well as

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