Tags: Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book : Kaa’s Hunting

[Extrait] Kaa was not a poison snake–in fact he rather despised the poison snakes as cowards–but his strength lay in his hug, and when he had once lapped his huge coils round anybody there was no more to be said.

The Jungle Book

[Incipit] Mowgli’s Brothers 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