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I . Story One : Mowgli’s Brothers It was a warm evening in the Seeonee hills of India . Father Wolf woke up from his day’s sleep and yawned . Mother Wolf lay with her big grey nose over her four little cubs , and the moon shone into the mouth of their cave . Just then a small shadow with a bushy tail came to the door . It was Tabaqui the jackal , a kind of small wild dog . Tabaqui ate rubbish from the villages and carried bad news from one animal to another . The wolves did not like him . “ Shere Khan , the Big One , is going to hunt in these hills for the next month , ” said Tabaqui . “ He told me so himself . ” Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River , twenty miles away . “ He has no right ! ” said Father Wolf angrily . “ The Law of the Jungle says that he must warn us first . He will frighten all the deer for ten miles around . ” “ His mother called him Lungri , the Lame One , ” said Mother Wolf quietly . “ He has been lame in one foot since he was born , so he only kills cows from the villages . Now the villagers will come into the jungle with fire to look for him , and we will have to run . ” “ Out ! ” said Father Wolf to Tabaqui , and the jackal ran off . From the valley below came the angry voice of a hungry tiger . “ Listen , ” said Mother Wolf . “ He is not hunting deer tonight . He is hunting Man . ” The Law of the Jungle does not let the animals eat Man . When an animal kills a man , sooner or later men come with guns and fire , and then everyone in the jungle suffers . Suddenly there was a great roar , and then a howl of pain . “ He has missed , ” said Mother Wolf . “ The fool jumped at a woodcutter’s fire and burned his feet , ” said Father Wolf . Then the bushes near the cave moved a little . Father Wolf jumped . But in the middle of his jump he saw what was there , and he stopped himself in the air . “ A man’s cub ! ” he said . “ Look ! ” In front of him , holding on to a low branch , stood a little brown baby . He could only just walk , and he had no clothes . He looked up into Father Wolf’s face and laughed . “ Bring it here , ” said Mother Wolf . “ I have never seen one . ” Father Wolf picked the baby up in his mouth so gently that not one tooth scratched him . He put him down among the cubs . At once the baby pushed his way in between them to get close to Mother Wolf’s warm body . “ How little he is ! And how brave ! ” said Mother Wolf softly . “ Look , he is not afraid at all . ”
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