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Extra Reading Mowgli’s Brothers
by Rudyard Kipling
When Mother Wolf finds a baby outside her
cave she decides to keep him and raise him
with her own cubs. But not everyone in the
jungle wants Mowgli and soon the wolves
must decide if he can join the pack.
he Law of the Jungle says very clearly
Tthat when all cubs are old enough to
stand on their feet their mother and father
must show them to the Pack Council.
There is usually a Pack Council once a
month at full moon. After the council the At last Father Wolf pushed ‘Mowgli the
cubs are free to run where they want. Frog’, as they called him, into the centre.
Father Wolf waited till his cubs could run Mowgli sat laughing and playing with
a little. Then on the night of the Pack some stones that shone in the moonlight.
Meeting he took them and Mowgli and Mother Wolf looked at him nervously.
Mother Wolf to the Council Rock. The Akela didn’t lift his head from his paws.
Council Rock was on the top of a hill. The He went on with his cry: “Look well!”
hill was covered with stones and rocks and Then a roar came from behind the rocks.
a hundred wolves could hide there. The It was the voice of Shere Khan: “The cub
leader of the pack was Akela, the great grey is mine. Give him to me. What do the
Lone Wolf. He was strong and cunning. wolves want with a man cub?” Akela didn’t
Now he was stretched out on his rock. move his ears. All he said was: “Look well,
More than forty wolves of every size and O wolves! And remember, wolves don’t
colour sat below him. There was very little take orders from anyone who isn’t a wolf.
talking at the Rock. Look well!” There was a chorus of deep
The cubs played in the centre of the circle growls, and a young wolf asked Akela
where their mothers and fathers sat. Now Shere Khan’s question: “What do the
and again a senior wolf went quietly up to wolves want with a man cub?”
a cub and looked at him carefully. Then Now, the Law of the Jungle says that if
he returned to his place on noiseless feet. there is a disagreement about the right of
Sometimes a mother pushed her cub into a cub to be part of the pack, he must be
the centre of the circle to be sure that the spoken for by at least two members of the
senior wolves could see him. Akela from his pack who are not his father and mother.
rock shouted: “You know the law — you “Who speaks for this cub?” asked Akela.
know the law. Look well, wolves!” And the “Which wolves speak for this cub?” There
anxious mothers answered his call, saying: was no answer. Mother Wolf got ready for
“Look — look well, O wolves!” a fight. Her last fight.
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