The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book
1 [Mowgli's Brothers] p.03, 04
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill,(...). The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

3 [Kaa's Hunting] p.32, 33, 34
It was then that Bagheera lifted up his dripping chin, and in despair gave the Snake's Call for protection—"We be of one blood, ye and I"—for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last minute. Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help.

"I could not come before, Brother, but I think I heard thee call"—this was to Bagheera.

5 [Tiger! Tiger!] p. 49, 51
"They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine," said Akela,

"Lead us again, O Akela. Lead us again, O Man-cub, for we be sick of this lawlessness, and we would be the Free People once more."

So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because, years afterward, he became a man and married.
But that is a story for grown-ups.

7 [The White Seal] p. 54, 57, 58
They fought in the breakers, they fought in the sand, and they fought on the smooth-worn basalt rocks of the nurseries, for they were just as stupid and unaccommodating as men.

Little seals can no more swim than little children, but they are unhappy till they learn.

They talked about the Pacific as boys would talk about a wood that they had been nutting in

9 [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi] p. 69, 77
At the hole where he went in
Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.
Hear what little Red-Eye saith:
"Nag, come up and dance with death!"

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits. His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink. He could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head. And just because he knew that Nagaina's children were born in eggs like his own, he didn't think at first that it was fair to kill them. But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra's eggs meant young cobras later on. So she flew off from the nest, and left Darzee to keep the babies warm, and continue his song about the death of Nag. Darzee was very like a man in some ways.

11 [Toomai of the Elephants] p. 89
The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence—

13 [Her Majesty's Servants] p. 107
The gun-bullocks got up to go. "Morning is coming," they said. "We will go back to our lines. It is true that we only see out of our eyes, and we are not very clever. But still, we are the only people to-night who have not been afraid. Good-night, you brave people."


The Second Jungle Book
1 [How Fear Came] p. 118
Hathi never does anything till the time comes, and that is one of the reasons why he lives so long.

3 [The Miracle of Purun Bhagat] p.128
That evening, at dinner in the big Viceregal tent, he stood up with the badge and the collar of the Order on his breast, and replying to the toast of his master's health, made a speech few Englishmen could have bettered.
Next month, when the city had returned to its sun-baked quiet, he did a thing no Englishman would have dreamed of doing; for, so far as the world's affairs went, he died.

5 [Letting in the Jungle] p. 143
The English, they had heard, were a perfectly mad people, who would not let honest farmers kill witches in peace.