Orakel Children's Books
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 14 chapter-aware companion links.
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Mowgli’s Brothers
Mowgli’s Brothers from 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
Open2Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack from The Jungle Book. As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice and again! And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup. This I, scouting alone, beheld, Once, twice and
Open3Kaa’s Hunting
Kaa’s Hunting from The Jungle Book. His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride. Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide. If ye find that the Bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore; Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons
Open4Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log from The Jungle Book. Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don’t you envy our pranceful bands? Don’t you wish you had extra hands? Wouldn’t you like if your tails were--so-- Curved in the shape of a Cupid’s bow? Now you’re angry, but--never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down
Open5“Tiger! Tiger!”
“Tiger! Tiger!” from The Jungle Book. What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride? Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side. Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair--to
Open6Mowgli’s Song
Mowgli’s Song from The Jungle Book. The Song of Mowgli—I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere Khan said he would kill—would kill! At the gates in the twilight he would kill Mowgli, the Frog! He ate and he drank. Drink deep, Shere Khan, for when wilt thou drink again? Sleep and dream of the kill. I am alone on the grazing-grounds. Gray Brother, come to me! Come to me, Lone Wolf, for there is big game afoot! Bring
Open7The White Seal
The White Seal from The Jungle Book. Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow, Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging
Open8Lukannon
Lukannon from The Jungle Book. This is the great deep-sea song that all the St. Paul seals sing when they are heading back to their beaches in the summer. It is a sort of very sad seal National
Open9“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” from The Jungle Book. 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
Open10Darzee’s Chant
Darzee’s Chant from The Jungle Book. Singer and tailor am I-- Doubled the joys that I know-- Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew-- Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I
Open11Toomai of the Elephants
Toomai of the Elephants from The Jungle Book. I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-- I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane: I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their
Open12Shiv and the Grasshopper
Shiv and the Grasshopper from The Jungle Book. Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, Sitting at the doorways of a day of long ago, Gave to each his portion, food and toil and fate, From the King upon the guddee to the Beggar at the gate. All things made he--Shiva the Preserver. Mahadeo! Mahadeo! He made all,-- Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother’s heart for sleepy head, O little son of
Open13Her Majesty’s Servants
Her Majesty’s Servants from The Jungle Book. You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee. You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky’s not the way of Winkie
Open14Parade Song of the Camp Animals
Parade Song of the Camp Animals from The Jungle Book. We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service: they ne’er were loosed again,-- Make way there--way for the ten-foot teams Of the Forty-Pounder
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