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The Jungle Book
Epigraph
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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Imprint
  3. Epigraph
  4. Mowgli’s Brothers
  5. Kaa’s Hunting
  6. “Tiger! Tiger!”
  7. The White Seal
  8. “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
  9. Toomai of the Elephants
  10. Her Majesty’s Servants
  11. Colophon
  12. Uncopyright

Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night
That Mang, the Bat, sets free⁠—
The herds are shut in byre and hut,
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call!⁠—Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law! Night-Song in the Jungle

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