The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Chapter 13 Page 1

For our white and our excellent nights — -for the nights of

swift running.

Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!

For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed!

For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started!

For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is

standing at bay,

For the risk and the riot of night!

For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day,

It is met, and we go to the fight.

Bay! O Bay!

It was after the letting in of the Jungle that the pleasantest part of Mowgli’s