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The Second Jungle Book, a fiction by Rudyard Kipling |
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THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE |
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_ Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a sort of sing-song) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves. There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will do for specimens of the simpler rulings. Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as old and as true as As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but The jackal may follow the Tiger, but, Cub, when thy Keep peace with the Lords of the Jungle--the Tiger, the When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker, devour not all in The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. Ye must The Kill of the Wolf is the meat of the Wolf. He may Cub-Right is the right of the Yearling. From all of his Lair-Right is the right of the Mother. From all of her Cave-Right is the right of the Father--to hunt by himself Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and |