Story Nore presents The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Hello, this is Richard, and I'm going to be reading from the famous Mowgli chapters from the jungle book by Rudyard Kipling.

They tell the tale of a child who was brought up by wolves in the Indian jungle, and may even be based, rather loosely,

on some real-life tales of wolf kids. If you've ever seen the film by Disney, you will know

that Mowgli's great enemy is Shia Khan, the lame man-eating tiger. I'm going to be breaking up the text into episodes of about 15 minutes each.

Otherwise, these are the wonderful words that flowed from the pen of Rajad Kipling.

And I'm delighted to dedicate the first part to StoryNorri's listener, Mirra in Malta,

who supports us on Patreon.

Part 1, Mowgli's Brothers.

It was 7 o'clock of a very warm evening in the C&E Hills,

when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself,

yawned, and spread out his paws, one after the other, to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their

tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big grey nose, dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone

into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. Ah, said Father Wolf, it is time to hunt again.

He was going to spring downhill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the

threshold and whined, Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves, and good luck and

strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

It was the jackal, tobacco, the dish liquor.

And the wolves of India despise tobacco because he runs about making mischief

and telling tales and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish heaps.

But they were afraid of him too,

because tobacco, more than anyone else in the jungle,

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