I have added a new post to the Copy Book, The Water Truce.
This is a short extract from The Jungle Book (1894), one of Rudyard Kipling’s most enduringly popular stories. Set in India (of course) it tells of the little boy Mowgli, who is brought up by the wolf-pack in the forests, lakes and wilderness of what is now Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh, near Seoni. In this scene, the jungle is experiencing a severe and prolonged drought. Such is the threat to all the Jungle animals that Hathi, the elephant, has done his duty and announced the Water Truce, during which no animal may hunt another. It is a necessary law, but not one that Bagheera, the black panther, finds easy to keep.