リッキ・ティッキ・タビ — Rudyard Kipling
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : The Jungle Book Author : Rudyard Kipling Release date : April 30, 2011 [eBook #35997] Most recently updated: November 8, 2023 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35997 Credits : Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team *** START OF " (SEE PAGE 246.) Copyright 1893, 1894, by Rudyard Kipling Copyright, 1894, by Harper and Brothers Copyright 1893, 1894, by The Century Co. CONTENTS PAGE Mowgli’s Brothers 1 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack 42 Kaa’s Hunting 47 Road-Song of the Bandar-log 89 “Tiger! Tiger!” 93 Mowgli’s Song 131 The White Seal 137 Lukannon 170 “Rikki-tikki-tavi” 175 Darzee’s Chaunt 212 Toomai of the Elephants 217 Shiv and the Grasshopper 261 Her Majesty’s Servants 265 Parade-Song of the Camp Animals 300 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "Little Toomai laid himself down close to the great Neck, lest a swinging Bough should sweep him to the Ground" Frontispiece "'Good Luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves'" 5 "The Tiger's Roar filled the Cave with Thunder" 11 The Meeting at the Council Rock 17 "Bagheera would lie out on a Branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother'" 23 "'Wake, Little Brother; I bring News'" 99 "'Are all these Tales such Cobwebs and Moon-Talk?' said Mowgli" 105 "Buldeo lay as still, as still, expecting every Minute to see Mowgli turn into a Tiger, too" 121 "When the Moon rose over the Plain the Villagers saw Mowgli trotting across, with two Wolves at his Heels" 126 "They clambered up on the Council Rock together, and Mowgli spread the Skin out on the flat Stone" 129 "Ten Fathoms Deep" 146 "They were all awake and staring in every Direction but the right one" 154 "He had found Sea Cow at last" 162 "Rikki-tikki looked down between the Boy's Collar and Neck" 177 "He put his Nose into the Ink" 178 "Rikki-tikki was awake on the Pillow" 179 "He came to Breakfast riding on Teddy's Shoulder" 180 "'We are very miserable,' said Darzee" 181 "'I am Nag,' said the Cobra: 'Look, and be afraid.' But at the Bottom of his cold Heart HE was afraid" 183 "He jumped up in the Air, and just under him whizzed by the Head of Nagaina" 187 "In the Dark he ran up against Chuchundra, the Muskrat" 192 "Then Rikki-tikki was battered to and fro as a Rat is shaken by a Dog" 197 Darzee's Wife pretends to have a broken Wing 201 "Nagaina flew down the Path with Rikki-tikki behind her" 207 "It is all over" 210 "Kala Nag was the best-loved Elephant in the Service" 219 "'He is afraid of me,' said Little Toomai, and he made Kala Nag lift up his Feet one after the other" 223 "He would get his Torch and wave it, and yell with the Best" 229 "'Not green Corn, Protector of the Poor,—Melons,' said Little Toomai" 235 "Little Toomai looked down upon Scores and Scores of broad Backs" 251 "'To Toomai of the Elephants. Barrao!'" 259 "A Camel had blundered into my Tent" 267 "'Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the Night,' said the Troop-horse" 275 "'The Man was lying on the Ground, and I stretched myself not to tread on him, and he slashed up at me'" 279 "Then I heard an old, grizzled, long-haired Central Asian Chief asking Questions of a native Officer" 297 THE JUNGLE BOOK Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. Oh, hear the call!—Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle. MOWGLI'S BROTHERS IT was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in the tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!" said Father Wolf, "it is time to hunt again"; and he was going to spring downhill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: "Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves; and good luck and strong white teeth go with the noble children, that they may never forget the hungry in this world." "'GOOD LUCK GO WITH YOU, O CHIEF OF THE WOLVES.'" It was the jackal—Tabaqui, the Dish-licker—and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. They are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than any one else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of any one, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. Even the tiger hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee —the madness—and run. "Enter, then, and look," said Father Wolf, stiffly; "but there is no food here." "For a wolf, no," said Tabaqui; "but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast. Who are we, the Gidur-log [the Jackal People], to pick and choose?" He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily. "All thanks for this good meal," he said, licking his lips. "How beautiful are the noble children! How large are their eyes! And so young too! Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning." Now, Tabaqui knew as well as any one else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces; and it pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable. Tabaqui sat still, rejoicin