CONTENTS THE MOWGLI STORIES 1 The Man Cub 2 The Wolf Pack Council 3. The Law of the Jungle 4 The Bandar log 5 The Cold Lairs 6 Kaa's Hunting 7 Bagheera's Warning 8 The Red Flower 9 The Village 10 The Gathering 11 Tiger Tiger 12 The Return to Council Rock THE WHITE SEAL 1 Kotick 2 It's Horrible 3 The Island RIKKI TIKKI TAVI 1 Rikki tikki Finds a Home 2 Rikki tikki the Brave
THE MOWGLI STORIES This is the hour of pride and power Talon and tusk and claw Oh hear the call Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law -Night Song in the Jungle
CHARACTERS MOWGLI the man cub adopted by wolves in the Jungle of India WOLVES the Wolf Pack that raises Mowgli MOTHER RAKSHA and FATHER WOLF AKELA THE LONE WOLF wolf leader GREY BROTHER Mowgli's wolf brother TABAQUI the jackal SHERE KHAN the lame tiger BALOO the big brown bear who teaches Mowgli the Law of the Jungle BAGHEERA the black panther who helps to guide and protect Mowgli BANDAR LOG the silly Monkey People KAA the thirty foot rock python CHIL the kite sea eagle VILLAGERS MESSUA woman who takes Mowgli in BULDEO hunter and old storyteller RAMA the big bull buffalo
CHAPTER ONE The Man Cub It was seven o'clock on a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills Father Wolf woke up scratched himself yawned and spread out his paws Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose on her four tumbling squealing cubs The moon shone into the mouth of the cave Augrh said Father Wolf It is time to hunt again Suddenly someone with a bushy tail called into the cave Good luck go with you O Chief of the Wolves It was the jackal Tabaqui The wolves of India hated Tabaqui He made trouble He told lies He was often prowling for food scraps
