Introduction
In Rudyard Kipling’s story The Jungle Book, a prolonged drought has left Mowgli and the animals with no food and little water. The waterhole has sunk so low that the Peace Rock is showing, and Hathi, the elephant, has called the Water Truce so hunter and hunted alike can drink. As dusk falls, the truce is holding — though Bagheera, the blank panther, isn’t much help.
Up-stream, at the bend of the sluggish pool round the Peace Rock, and Warden of the Water Truce, stood Hathi, the wild elephant, with his sons, gaunt and gray in the moonlight, rocking to and fro — always rocking. Below him a little were the vanguard of the deer; below these, again, the pig and the wild buffalo; and on the opposite bank, where the tall trees came down to the water’s edge, was the place set apart for the Eaters of Flesh — the tiger, the wolves, the panther, and the bear, and the others.
“We are under one Law, indeed,” said Bagheera,* wading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro. ‘Good hunting, all you of my blood,” he added, lying down at full length, one flank thrust out of the shallows; and then, between his teeth, “But for that which is the Law it would be very good hunting.”
Précis
In ‘The Jungle Book’, Kipling described the Water Truce, an agreement among the animals to refrain from hunting during a severe drought. Predators lounged by one side of the diminishing waterhole, prey crowded nervously at the other; but despite the truce, Bagheera the black panther could not resist commenting on the temptation presented by the sight of so much game.
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In ‘The Jungle Book’, Kipling described the Water Truce, an agreement among the animals to refrain from hunting during a severe drought. Predators lounged by one side of the diminishing waterhole, prey crowded nervously at the other; but despite the truce, Bagheera the black panther could not resist commenting on the temptation presented by the sight of so much game.
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