The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One

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the wolves, the red dogs, and many others. Watch and see how each kind of animal comes; it is not always

ike the elephants. They come three or four together. They also have beaten down the bushes there years ago, to

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a body of soldiers, one row behind another. Sometimes twenty or thirty rows make up a

ived scattered about, and many of them got eaten by the tiger, one at a time. Then those that escaped from the tiger became wise; they jo

ard long on each side of the head. You see how the buffaloes stand side by side, so that their horns almost touch one another. That is the

to the side like soldiers. Then the buffaloes that have had their drink m

hen they finish drinking, they also wheel, march to the back of the herd, and there stand behind the firs

children. You see again, like the elephants, the Mammas and child

of bull buffaloes again, to guard the Mamm

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here were brave knights who used to come to the help of ladies who were in danger. Well, you will be glad to know that these b

h ground behind, to catch her. It is the last chance of the tiger to get his supper; so he wai

er, row after row, horn to horn, she tries to creep in toward them; she even tries to creep in under the horns of the buffaloes, knowing that

hey take a little longer to drink, to give her a chance to reach the water

ngle again. She looks carefully: the tiger is watching her, but he dares not come too near. She sees where he is-then suddenl

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wling with rage. But the bulls in front of the herd paw the ground

trampled into a mess under their hoofs, or cut up into pieces with their horns. Instead, h

ways just like us; for a brave man always

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les and aunts. Some of the wild pigs are called boars; they are the Papas among the wild pigs. You can always tell them by the two sharp tusks, or teeth, on

e. They trust to luck or to the sharp tusks of some of the boars to guard them

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pack of red dogs; they have come boldly, as they are afraid of nothing. For if a hungry tiger attacks them, the whole pack will jump on the tiger and

hear them? They are howling at the moon in a chorus. Dogs always howl at the moon. Men do not quite know just why dogs do that. But perhaps they do it because they are glad and satisfied,

the red dogs have howled as long as a song, they scamper off into the j

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neaking shadow there! It must be a hyena. That is an animal that eats what remains from some other animal's sup

elf. But, still, she comes very quietly, looking to right and left to make sure that the tiger is not just in that place. She reaches the wat

er parts very slowly, and a huge yello

on the deer; so he takes one s

rinking, the red deer has turned and leaped to the side. The tiger has also leaped at the same time, and he aimed at the place where the de

as the deer can run much faster. So he stands there, and growls for quite a while. Then, as he did n

the midnight pool, as all

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ou first the elephants; they were on our right-that is, down the stream, th

e stream, but more to our left-that i

the stream many times, the water begins to get muddy. In fact, after drinking, the elepha

t place, as the water flows that way. And as the other animals do not want mudd

le says that as the elephants are the lords of the jungle, they shall drink first: but they must be careful to drink

for many thousands of years, among

often broken, because some of them want all the best things and the best plac

things from the animals, even how to b