Story Nore presents The Jungle Book.

Part 5.

Hello, this is Richard, and we are starting the chapter of the jungle book which is called

Cars Hunting.

It continues the story of the man-cub Mowgli and features the infamous monkeys called the

Band-a-Log.

And I'm delighted to dedicate this episode to Joss from

Cheltenham in England, whose family supports us on Patreon. And this might be a good

moment to recap some of the names in the Jungle Book just to make sure it's easy to follow along.

Mowgli is of course the Man cub. In the Disney film, his name

is pronounced Moly, as in the name Mo. But Kipling leaves us a note to say, Mowgli is a name I

made up. It does not mean frog in any language that I know of. It is pronounced Mowgli, accent on the

Mao which rhymes with cow. So that is why we're pronouncing his name Mowgli, just as Kipling

instructed. And Kipling tells us that Baloo is Hindi for bear, and Barg is Hindi for tiger so Bargera the Black Panther sort of

means a little tiger Carr who this chapter is named after is a made-up name from the queer open-mouthed

hiss of a big snake he's a python anyway I'll explain a few more names as we go

along, but now let's continue with the story. All that is told here happened some time before

Maugli was turned out of the C&E Wolf Pack or reven revenged himself on Shear Khan, the Tiger.

It was in the days when Baloo was teaching him the law of the jungle.

The big, serious, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil, for the young wolves

will only learn as much of the law of the jungle as

applies to their own pack and tribe, and run away as soon as they can repeat the hunting

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