Story Nore presents The Jungle Book. Mowgli's Brothers, Part 2. Hello, this is Richard, and I'm here with

the second episode of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Last time we heard how a baby boy,

Malgley, was adopted by a family of wolves. Father Wolf is

about to present him to the Wolfpack. Will they accept the little man cub? And I'm delighted

to dedicate this episode to Ray and Jasper, who supports StoryNory on Patreon.

Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run a little, and then on the night of the pack

meeting took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf to the council rock, a hilltop covered with

stones and boulders where a hundred wolves could

hide.

Arkela, the great grey lone wolf who led all the pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full

length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and colour, from

badger-coloured veterans who could handle a buck alone, to young black three-year-olds

who thought they could.

The lone wolf had led them for a year now. He had fallen twice into a wolf

trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead, so he knew the manners and customs of men.

There was very little talking at the rock. The cubs tumbled over each other in the

centre of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat. And now and again, a senior wolf

would go quietly up to a cub, look at him carefully, and return to his place on noiseless feet. Sometimes a mother would push

her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked. Arkela from his rock

would cry, "'Ye know the law, ye know the law. Look well, O wolves!

And the anxious mothers would take up the call.

Look, look well, oh wolves!

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