The Second Jungle Book

Chapter—1Q1. What did Sahi, the Porcupine, tell Mowgli?Q2. What did Mowgli state, sitting up in the water?Chapter—2Q1. What did Puran Dass realize as he grew up?Q2. How did high-caste Puran Dass lose caste?Chapter—3Q1. What did the four children of Mother and Father wolf utter?Q2. The man stared angrily? What did he utter in indignation?Chapter – […]

Chapter-8 The second year after the great fight with Red Dog and the death of Akela, Mowgli must have been nearly seventeen years old. He looked older, for hard exercise, the best of good eating, and baths whenever he felt in the least hot or dusty had given him strength and growth far beyond his

Chapter-7 It was after the letting in of the Jungle that the pleasantest part of Mowgli’s life began. He had the good conscience that comes from paying a just debt, and the Jungle was his friend, for all the Jungle was afraid of him. The things that he did and saw and heard when he

Chapter-6 Half way down the long low snow passage or tunnel that led to the inner door of the house you could hear snappings and yelpings, as the dogs of his sleigh-team, released from the day’s work, scuffled for warm places.When the yelping grew too loud Kotuko lazily rolled off the sleeping-bench and picked up

Chapter-5 That afternoon Mowgli was sitting in the circle of Kaa’s great coils, fingering the flaked and broken old skin that lay all looped and twisted among the rocks just as Kaa had left it. Kaa had very courteously packed himself under Mowgli’s broad, bare shoulders, so that the boy was really resting in a

Chapter-4 ‘Respect the aged! Brahmins of the River—respect the aged!’The Adjutant half turned his head, sheered a little in the direction of the voice, and landed stiffly on the sand-bar below the bridge. Then you saw what a ruffianly brute he really was. His back-view was immensely respectable, for he stood nearly six feet high,

Chapter-3 After Mowgli had pinned Shere Khan’s hide to the Council Rock, he told as many as were left of the Seeonee Pack that hence forward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him. But it is not easy to

Chapter-2 There was once a man in India who was Prime Minister of one of the semi-independent native States in the north-western part of the country. He was a Brahmin, so high-caste that caste ceased to have any particular meaning for him; and his father had been an important official in the gay-coloured tag-rag and

Chapter-1 Mowgli saw all the Jungle working under one Law. It began when the winter rains failed almost entirely, and Sahi, the Porcupine, meeting Mowgli in a bamboo thicket, told him that the wild yams were drying up. Now everybody knows that Sahi is ridiculously fastidious in his choice of food, and will eat nothing