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THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK
by Rudyard Kipling

CONTENTS How Fear Came The Law of the Jungle The Miracle of
Purun Bhagat A Song of Kabir Letting in the Jungle Mowgli's Song
against People The Undertakers A Ripple Song The King's Ankus The
Song of the Little Hunter Quiquern 'Angutivaun Taina' Red Dog Chil's
Song The Spring Running The Outsong

HOW FEAR CAME
The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I;
With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank;
And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill.

Now 'neath his dam the fawn may see, The lean Pack-wolf as cowed as
he, And the tall buck, unflinching, note The fangs that tore his father's
throat. The pools are shrunk--the streams are dry, And we be playmates,
thou and I, Till yonder cloud--Good Hunting!--loose The rain that
breaks our Water Truce.
The Law of the Jungle--which is by far the oldest law in the world--has
arranged for almost every kind of accident that may befall the Jungle
People, till now its code is as perfect as time and custom can make it.
You will remember that Mowgli spent a great part of his life in the
Seeonee Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Baloo, the Brown Bear;
and it was Baloo who told him, when the boy grew impatient at the
constant orders, that the Law was like the Giant Creeper, because it
dropped across every one's back and no one could escape. "When thou
hast lived as long as I have, Little Brother, thou wilt see how all the
Jungle obeys at least one Law. And that will be no pleasant sight," said
Baloo.
This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends
his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually
stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo's words came