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
THE JUNGLE BOOK
THE MOWGLI STORIES There is no food here said Father Wolf stiffly For a wolf no said Tabaqui but for me a dry bone is a good feast He scuttled to the back of the cave where he found a bone All thanks for this good meal he said licking his lips How beautiful are your noble children How large are their eyes Ah little ones beware Shere Khan the Big One will hunt among these hills for the next moon so he has told me Shere Khan was the lame tiger who lived near the Waingunga River twenty miles away He has no right Father Wolf began angrily By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his hunting grounds with no warning He will frighten all our game within ten miles Out he snapped Out and hunt with your master I go said Tabaqui quietly Ah You can hear Shere Khan below in the bushes Father Wolf listened Below in the valley he heard the angry snarly whine of a hungry tiger The fool said Father Wolf To begin a night's work with that noise Does he think that our bucks will not hear him H'sh It is not buck he hunts tonight said Mother Wolf It is Man
