By
Rudyard Kipling

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1899

Copyright, 1893, 1894, 1895, by THE CENTURY Co.
Copyright, 1897, by RUDYARD KIPLING. 
Quiquern, Angutivaun Taina,
Copyright, 1895, by IRVING BACHELLER.
The Undertakers, A Ripple Song,
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat, A Song of Kabir,
copyright, 1894, by
BACHELLER, JOHNSON & BACHELLER.

“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle,
 and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law
and the haunch and the hump is— Obey!”

CONTENTS  “RIKKI-TIKKI-TAVI”        DARZEE’S CHAUNT.  THE WHITE SEAL        LUKANNON.  TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS        SHIV AND THE GRASSHOPPER.  QUIQUERN        “ANGUTIVAUN TAINA.”  THE UNDERTAKERS        A RIPPLE SONG.  THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT        A SONG OF KABIR.  HER MAJESTY’S SERVANTS        PARADE-SONG OF THE CAMP ANIMALS.

ILLUSTRATIONS  TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS THE WHITE SEAL THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT

The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and sunken flank Each jostling each along the bank; And, by one drouthy fear made still, Foregoing 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 the Water Truce.

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