StoryNori presents The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Part 4.

And I am delighted to dedicate this episode to Raphael, whose family supports StoryNorri on Patreon.

Hello, this is Richard, and I'm here with the fourth part of the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

This episode will conclude the chapters called Mowgli's Brothers.

If you've been listening, you will know that Mowgli the Man Cub has joined the wolf pack

led by Arkela.

Shi Khan, the lame tiger, has sworn to kill him.

Mowgli has returned to the human village to gather man's red flower, otherwise known as fire.

Now, on to the story.

Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth.

He saw the husbandman's wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps.

And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold,

he saw the man's child pick up a wicker pot, plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps

of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows and the buyer.

"'Is that all?' said Mowgli.

"'If a cub can do it, there is nothing to fear."

So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand and disappeared

into the mist while the boy howled with fear.

They are very like me, said Mowgli blowing into the pot as he had seen the woman do.

This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat.

And he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.

Halfway up the hill he met Bagheera, with a morning dew shining like moonstones on his coat.

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