title: The Jungle Book : The Classic Tale
author:  Rudyard Kipling 
description: <div><B>Joseph Rudyard Kipling</B> (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story <I>The Jungle Book</I> (1894), the Indian spy novel <I>Kim</I> (1901), the poems <I>Gunga Din</I> (1892), <I>If</I> (1895), and his many short stories.The height of his popularity was the first decade of the 20th century: in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date, and in 1934 he shared the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry with William Butler Yeats. In his own lifetime he was primarily considered a poet, and was even offered a knighthood and the post of British Poet Laureate- though he turned them both down.</div>
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  # The Second Jungle Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Rudyard Kipling
  
  
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  HOW FEAR CAME
  
  
  THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
  
  
  THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT
  
  
  A SONG OF KABIR
  
  
  LETTING IN THE JUNGLE
  
  
  MOWGLI'S SONG AGAINST PEOPLE
  
  
  THE UNDERTAKERS
  
  
  A RIPPLE SONG
  
  
  THE KING'S ANKUS
  
  
  THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER
  
  
  QUIQUERN
  
  
  'ANGUTIVAUN TAINA'
  
  
  RED DOG
  
  
  CHIL'S SONG
  
  
  THE SPRING RUNNING
  
  
  THE OUTSONG
  
  
  
  
  
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  HOW FEAR CAME
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry,
  
  
  And we be comrades, thou and I;
  
  
  With fevered jowl and dusty flank
  
  
  Each jostling each along the bank;
  
  
  And by one drouthy fear made still,
  
  
  Forgoing thought of quest or kill.
  
  
  Now 'neath his dam the fawn may see,
  
  
  The lean Pack-wolf as cowed as he,
  
  
  And the tall buck, unflinching, note
  
  
  The fangs that tore his father's throat.
  
  
  The pools are shrunk--the streams are dry,
  
  
  And we be playmates, tho