The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22
-. xIpLrNa,s SECOND JUNGLE
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NJ. K;nlinp's "Second Jungle
pooL,, "a now published by the Cen
INV company and one is inclined TO
s sa TINT # IL not quite equal to the
srst great "Jungle Book" That was
s~preme work Of revelation, and as
such II eclipsed many famous STORY
hook wh,ch it's successors may come
n he. This is not quite 80 sponta-
naoms. does not 80 strongly impress
the reader with the sense OF spirit
nal nossession, but under the spell OF
tha e;pht tales it is difficult to mann
tain the notion of inferiority. rive
ont of the eight tales deal with
MowgIi. one Of the other three has 10
40 with the crocodiles, one Is
strange account of an Indian miracle,
not nj all the sort OF miracle Oh
which we are accustomed 70 near
and the third goes to the Eskimos ana
About the best story Of all is that
one called'"The Kings Ankus' IN
which Mowglivisits, together win
Kaa, the great rock python: the unaer
,,ro,'rd treasure house of rulned
ee;tv, finding the remarkable ola
,nh;;to cobra on guard. The white
cobra - manners are not up to the stan
dord of those of our other friends OF
The ;nnple and he is disposed to make
4; Il; un5leasant for Mowgli, but asl
Moweli remarked, "the white thing
has dealt with men Of the manpacK
iii now-he does not know me, ana
ha nroves himself more than match
for The old white fellow. The llght
which Mr.. Kipling in such a casual
manner throws on Indian customs IS
what fascinates us even in what we
call his poor work. The great ruined
CITY of this narrative, the same we
have seen before in 'kaa's Huh!-
inc. y tells tale of varnished, magnl,,
ficence to be seen Only in India, ana
;ts kings we're living there in luxury
and pomp. they made an unu =.
ground treasure house OF stone, ana III
Il entombed cobras to be guardians OF
the treasure. There these deaoly
snakes grew white and the bones OF
men attested their worth as Maroehs
of the kings treasure. Ana the o'o
cobra says = - a,
"But it is long and long since the
stone was last moved, and thlhk INA.
my city has forgotten: bu !.
/ change never! TN the stons 10
lifted and the Brahmins come down
sino;ng the song that / know, and
faai me- with warm milk, and take me
70 the light again, Ill, and no
ether. am the Warden of the Kings
Treasures. The city is dead, ye say.
anJ here are the roots or the trees?
Stoop down. then, and take what ye
: ! will. Earth has no treasure ike 70
b these. Man with the snakes tongue,
,, II thou canst 90 alive, 10y the way
j. thou hast entered at, the lesser kings
will be thy servants. ~,
Can ANYTHING be so subtly terrible,
y so ipsidious in it's horror as TINS lnge.
g nuitv Of the potentates sof the East!
A. The guardian of the kings treasure
u. house recalls to mind the evil lnven'
n. t;ons of Sittabhai in "The Naulak
j ha. y book which is in itself treas
10 ure house of the marvels OF the lndlar
!. empire. ~ Nal,
nj elbow Fear Came, we have EVIDENT
y " an Indian folk lore account of thu
tigers stripes as imaginative as posi-
be- HATH, the great wild elephan
who has lived 80 long, tells the oriigii
: Of death and sin according to the Jun
: ole; how the first of the elephants
That, being busy making new jungles
made the first of the tigers master 9
the iungles. And the first OF the u
!, GERS ate fruit and grass with Tn
!. = others. "and he was very beautiful
:. in color all over like the blossom OF TN
% yellow creeper.'' But one day whel
"A two bucks were disputing, the firs
~ of the tigers forgot that what he san
Il, was law. and killed the buck wh
- nleased him least. And Tha, walking
In the garden at the cool of evening
saw the dead buck and none could teI
- him who killed it, SO he laid an orde
on the trees that hung low and on Tn
trailing creepers that they should mar
the killer of the buck that he migh,
know him Then the tiger running
on kill Fear even as he had killed IN
huck was marked with black stripe
les and he with all the people OF the lur
ne. Ole was afraid of the Hairless One wh
CIT called him 1.-THE striped one tht
IN. comes by night for the hairless on
civ was Man, and he taught the jungle ieai
ich OF course no transcription ana d
ely quotation can give an adequate idea
M. the power and beauty OF mr.. MI
o. ling's narrative. The only thing
do is to read him as he is at his be'
Ing lin these the scriptures OF the grei
lso Jungle 1t will be noticed by man
that uQere is Ont poIbt VI oSeN"i -
neriority in this second volume an
that is in the, way of description I
j., which indeed the first volume va
not lacking in fine examples. But
seems as if Mr.. KiPling fairly outdo'
- himself in this bit from 1.-THE Mirac
of Puraun Bhagat," which compe
, quotation =
Immediately below him the hilsit
fell away, clean and cleared for !, d
feet, where little village of ston
. walled houses, with roofs of bcatt
10. earth. chung to the steep tilt. 4
around it the tiny terraced fields !;
=, out like aprons of patchwork on u
- knees of the mountain, and cows
bigger than beetles grazed between u
. smooth stone circles of the threshin
floors. Looking across the valley u
eve was deceived by the size
things and could not at first res
, NJ ,ze that what seemed to be low scru
S.55 on the opposite mountain Hank. W
49, in truth forest of hundred foot pine
tSo Purun Bhagat saw an eagle swo
S.ss across the gigantic hollow, but t
$40 great bird dwindled to a dot ere
! lo ~ was half way over. A few bands
f' scattered clouds strung up and do'
the valley catching on shoulder
p =" the hills or rising up and dying o
ally. when they were level with the he
III. of the pass. And there shall l ii
pm. peace" said Purun Bhagat
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