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This tale was first published in The Week's News on 25 February 1888, and then included the same year in Volume 5 of the Indian Railway Library - The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales. It was collected in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous later editions of that collection. The narrator stays the night in a rather sinister old dâk-bungalow. During the night he hears the 'unmistakable' sound of a game of billiards being played in the non-existent room next door.

A boy is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, who teach him the "Law of the Jungle". Some years later, the wolfpack and Mowgli are threatened by the tiger Shere Khan. Mowgli brings fire, driving off Shere Khan but showing that he is a man and must leave the jungle.

The story first appeared in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and was included in the many subsequent editions of that collection. It was also published in Papyrus in 1909 under the title of "Bisesa". A beautiful young Indian woman, Bisesa, has been widowed very young, and longs for a lover. An Englishman, Trejago, who is knowledgeable about things Indian, wanders into the gully where she sits behind a barred window, and has a flirtatious exchange with her.

"The Taking of Lungtungpen" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 11 April 1887. In book form, the story appeared in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is about one of Kipling's three private soldiers, Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, whose adventures are further related in his collection of short stories Soldiers Three: Terence Mulvaney.

There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand gray to the sun, Singing: -- "Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover, And your English summer's done.

This story was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on September 26th 1884, when Kipling was not yet nineteen, and collected in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of this collection. It was his first short story to be published - a tour de force that set a standard which - with a few lapses - he maintained for the rest of his life. The tale is presented as a monologue by Gabral Misquitta, a half-caste opium addict, six weeks before his death.

First published in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in successive subsequent editions of this collection, in which it was the fourth of the Mulvaney stories. Private Stanley Ortheris, small, tough, a crack shot, Cockney to his bones, and serving the Queen in India, is plunged in suicidal gloom. He is overcome with homesickness for London, '...sick for the sounds of 'er and the stinks of 'er; orange-peel and hasphalte an' gas comin' in over Vaux'all Bridge.

This tale was first published in "The Week's News" on 14 July, 1888, and collected in the Indian Railway Library No 1 and Soldiers Three in the same year. Mrs DeSussa, a wealthy Eurasian lady, has taken a fancy to the Colonel's wife's dog, 'Rip', an engaging terrier. She offers Learoyd 350 rupees if he will steal the dog for her, so that she can take it home at the end of the cold season. The three soldiers steal another dog from the Canteen Sergeant, dye its coat so that it looks like Rip, and hand it over to her at the railway station.

On the night before a British military parade for the Amir of Afghanistan, the army's working animals - mule, camel, horse, bullock, elephant - discuss what they do in battle and how they feel about their work. It is explained to the Afghans that men and animals obey the orders carried down from the Queen.

"The Sending of Dana Da" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: Once upon a time, some people in India made a new Heaven and a new Earth out of broken tea-cups, a missing brooch or two, and a hair-brush. These were hidden under brushes, or stuffed into holes in the hillside, and an entire Civil Service of subordinate Gods used to find or mend them again; and every one said: "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

"With the Main Guard" is an short story by Rudyard Kipling: First published in The Week's News of Allahabad on August 4th 1888, issued in Soldiers Three (Indian Railway Library No. 1) the same year, and collected in Soldiers Three and other Stories in 1899. It is a stifling June night in Fort Amara at Lahore, and the men are doing all they can to fight off heat exhaustion or worse.

The God from the Machine is a short story by Rudyard Kipling: The Inexpressibles gave a ball. They borrowed a seven-pounder from the Gunners, and wreathed it with laurels, and made the dancing-floor plate-glass and provided a supper, the like of which had never been eaten before, and set two sentries at the door of the room to hold the trays of programme-cards. My friend, Private Mulvaney, was one of the sentries, because he was the tallest man in the regiment.

Das Werk "Erloschenes Licht" ist ein Roman von Rudyard Kipling. Kipling (30. Dezember 1865 in Bombay - 18. Januar 1936 in London) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Dichter. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind "Das Dschungelbuch" und der Roman "Kim". Die Kinder waren zu der Überzeugung gelangt, dass ihr Leben unerträglich sein würde, wenn sie nicht im Pistolenschießen sich üben könnten.

Un cucciolo d'uomo è l'unico superstite scampato all'attacco della temibile tigre Shere Khan. È accolto e protetto da una famiglia di lupi coraggiosi che lo si prendono cura di lui e lo amano come un figlio. Lo chiamano Mowgli. Da quel momento il cucciolo d'uomo entra a far parte del branco e impara a vivere secondo le leggi della giunga, anche per merito di due tutori speciali: un orso grigio, Baloo e la pantera più nera della giungla, Bagheera. Ma un brutto giorno, Shere Khan torna per rivendicare la sua preda!

"Imagine-toi qu'au temps jadis, l'Éléphant n'avait pas de trompe. Il n'avait qu'un nez noiraud, courtaud, et gros comme une botte. Il pouvait bien le tortiller de droite et de gauche, mais non pas ramasser des choses avec." "L'Enfant d'éléphant" (1902) est un conte racontant pourquoi la trompe de l'éléphant est si grande. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) était un auteur britannique. Né en Inde, il est surtout connu pour son roman "Le Livre de la Jungle". Il fut à la fois le premier anglais et le plus jeune lauréat (42 ans) à recevoir le Prix Nobel de littérature.

Helden aus Kindertagen - Mowgli, Baloo und Bagheera. Es ist eine fremde und abenteuerliche Welt, die der kleine Mowgli im indischen Dschungel erlebt, nachdem ihn der Tiger Shir Khan aus dem Dorf seiner Eltern geraubt hat. Er wächst bei einer Wolfsfamilie auf und schließt Freundschaft mit den Tieren der Wildnis, dem Bären Baloo und dem Panter Bagheera. Aber auch das ungebundene Leben in der Natur kommt nicht ohne feste Regeln aus: Mowgli und die Tiere des Dschungels müssen ihnen gehorchen, wenn sie überleben wollen.

Kipling's Jungle Book remains popular and has seen many adaptations to film and other media. Besides the boy Mowgli, all the characters are animals or rather human archetypes in animal form. The stories, set in a forest in India, have themes like abandonment followed by fostering, and promotes the ideas of law and freedom, respect and obedience. Even critics of Kipling's supposed imperialism admit to the extraordinary power of his storytelling.

"Das kommt davon" - die schönsten Geschichten von Kindern und Tieren vom Autor des berühmten "Dschungelbuchs", Rudyard Kipling. In dieser Folge hört ihr "Die Katze, die ihre eigenen Wege geht" und "Der Schmetterling, der mit dem Fuß aufstampfte".

Dschungel, das klingt irgendwie nach Tigerschleichen, Affentanz und Trommelmusik. Es ist ein tolles und gewaltiges Fleckchen Erde, in dem es duftet und klingt und wo immer etwas los ist. Mogly, der als Junge im Dschungel aufgewachsen ist, erlebt im warmen, immergrünen Wald der freundlichen und gefährlichen Tiere manches Abenteuer. Seine Geschichte ist ganz berühmt, weil sie so spannend und so gut ist. Woran man das erkennt? Nun, beim Hören wirst du Mogly und seine Freunde lebendig vor dir sehen.

"Das kommt davon"? - die schönsten Geschichten von Kindern und Tieren vom Autor des berühmten "Dschungelbuchs", Rudyard Kipling. In dieser Folge hört ihr "Wie der erste Brief geschrieben wurde", "Wie der Walfisch seinen engen Schlund bekam" und "Wie das Kamel seinen Buckel bekam".